The National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey is a representative survey of 10,000 women conducted by the U.S. Center for Disease Control, generating what is widely regarded as the highest-quality data on sexual violence in the country. In both its 2012 and 2016/2017 data releases , statistical comparisons of respondents show that the state of Utah had some of the lowest sexual violence rates in the nation.

That doesn’t mean Utah does not have a problem with sexual violence, which is a heartbreaking epidemic throughout the U.S. and world. It just means the best data in the nation has shown repeatedly that the Rocky Mountain state appears to be doing measurably better than other states in the country.

Despite this data coming out 8 years ago, this still isn’t something wide

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