This report profiles the development, features, and uses of Alaska’s intimate partner violence interactive data dashboard (IPV-IDD), which was developed to provide end users with customizable, compelling, and dynamic data on Alaska’s patterns of intimate partner violence (IPV).
The Alaska Council on Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault (CDVSA) and the Alaska Justice Information Center (AJIC) partnered to develop IPV-IDD. IPV-IDD uses Alaska Victimization Survey (AVS) data. With ready access to AVS data, state, local, and tribal victim service providers can leverage important IPV victimization data to improve the design and delivery of their programs. CSVSA and AJIC collaboratively identified the IPV measures to be included in the IPV-IDD, as well as the dimensions by which those measures were examined. IPV was operationalized to include three domains of perpetrator behavior: 1) physical violence, 2) psychological aggression, and 3) coercive control and entrapment. The IPV-IDD includes 21 behaviors that compose IPV across these three domains. Access to and use of quality data are critical for the work being done by CDVSA, its community-based subgrantees, and its stakeholders. Development of the IPV-IDD is a significant step in providing customizable, relevant, and interactive data that can be used by everyone. The IPV-IDD enables Alaska victimization data to be accessed and understood by the general public, researchers, policymakers, and practitioners. 5 figures of IPV-IDD screens