Survey of Sexual Assaults Survivors

Acknowledgements

The Department of Justice Canada undertook the Survey of Sexual Assault Survivors in collaboration with the Canadian Association of Sexual Assault Centres (CASAC) and eleven of its member centres.

The author would like to thank the women who agreed to be interviewed as well as Lee Lakeman, Regional Representative of the British Columbia Sexual Assault Centres, and the staff of the 11 centres who facilitated the participation of the interviewees.  The survey would not have been possible without them.

The author would also like to acknowledge Lynne Dee Sproule, formerly of the Research and Statistics Division, Department of Justice Canada, for initiating the survey and John Clement, of the Research and Statistics Division, Department of Justice Canada, for setting up the data base, generating the figures and tables included in this report and contributing to the preliminary data analysis.

Finally, thanks to Anna Paletta, Dariusz Galczynski, Chris Wright and Nicola Epprecht, staff members of the Research and Statistics Division, Department of Justice Canada, who kindly contributed to the finalisation of this report.