"Figure 6: Single adults were more likely to experience sexual assault","" "Prevalence of sexual assault in the last year for adults aged 16 to 74 years, by marital status and sex, England and Wales, year ending March 2018 to year ending March 2020 combined","" "","" "Notes","1. These data are based on combined data from year ending March 2018 to year ending March 2020. 2. See section 7.3 of the [user guide](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/crimeandjustice/methodologies/userguidetocrimestatisticsforenglandandwales#classifications) for definitions of personal characteristics. " "Unit","Percentage of adults who were victims once or more" "","" "","Women","Men" "Single","7.538401144","2.029035553" "Cohabiting","3.416612608","0.71866956" "Divorced/legally dissolved partnership","2.457027966","0.483054491" "Separated","1.72995701","1.197402974" "Married","1.058019111","0.273293218" "Widowed","0.798546737","0.090328286"