New Zealand: overall personal experiences of online hate speech by gender 2019

In a 2019 survey about personal experiences of hate speech online in New Zealand, 17 percent of male respondents said they had experienced personally directed hate speech within the last twelve months. By comparison, 12 percent of female respondents gave the same answer.

Overall personal experiences of online hate speech in New Zealand in 2018 and 2019, by gender

Characteristic	Male	Female
2019	17%	12%
2018	13%	8%

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Release date

December 2019

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Region

New Zealand

Survey time period

June 4 to 26, 2019

Number of respondents

1,161 respondents

Age group

18 years and older

Method of interview

Online survey

Supplementary notes

Survey question was as follows: ''In the last 12 months, have you received a digital communication that offended, discriminated, denigrated, abused and/or disparaged you because of your personal identity/beliefs? (e.g. race, ethnicity, gender, nationality, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, and/or other)''.

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