"Figure 4: Following long-term stability in the prevalence of sexual assault, an increase in the latest year was driven largely by increases in unwanted touching and indecent exposure","" "Adults aged 16 to 59 years, England and Wales, year ending March 2005 to year ending March 2018","" "","" "Notes","1. The sample size is lower for some years due to split-sample experiments. See notes in the CSEW Tables for more information. 2. Estimates are calculated from new questions from the year ending March 2013 onwards. Previous estimates are calculated from the original questions with an adjustment applied to make them comparable to the new questions. 3. The new offence category of ""Causing sexual activity without consent"" is not included in this chart to provide a comparable time series. " "Unit","Percentage of victims once or more" "","" "","All","Women","Men" "2005","2.60508","4.19096","1.00094" "2006","2.97715","5.01776","0.88423" "2007","2.90000","4.79380","0.98286" "2008","2.56438","4.45550","0.61603" "2009","2.15576","3.73154","0.53865" "2010","2.08187","3.35460","0.81366" "2011","2.32344","3.81998","0.80340" "2012","2.40872","4.18978","0.60142" "2013","1.91387","3.01802","0.81081" "2014","1.47464","2.22999","0.71235" "2015","1.70901","2.70677","0.69439" "2016","1.96120","3.22987","0.67958" "2017","1.95691","3.07942","0.83582" "2018","2.71039","4.23152","1.20516"