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According to figures from a 2011 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one in five women in America are victims of sexual assault. More than 40% of these reported that they were first raped before they were 18 years old.
The CDC report did not say that one in five U.S. women had experienced sexual assault. It reported that 19.3% of women had been raped in their lifetimes, and the 40.4% figure applied specifically to female victims of completed rape, not to all sexual-assault victims.
Full reasoning
The cited CDC report is the 2011 National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey. In its results section, CDC states: "an estimated 19.3% of women ... have been raped during their lifetimes". In the same report, CDC separately reports that 43.9% of women experienced other forms of sexual violence during their lifetimes.
So the article's "one in five" figure matches CDC's estimate for rape, not for sexual assault / sexual violence more broadly.
The follow-up sentence also shifts categories incorrectly. CDC says: "Among female victims of completed rape, an estimated 78.7% were first raped before age 25 years (40.4% before age 18 years)." That 40.4% figure is about female victims of completed rape, not about all women who experienced sexual assault.
In short, the article substitutes "sexual assault" for the narrower category the CDC actually measured here, and then carries the age-at-first-victimization statistic over as though it referred to that broader group.
1 source
- Prevalence and Characteristics of Sexual Violence, Stalking, and Intimate Partner Violence Victimization — National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, United States, 2011
Results: In the United States, an estimated 19.3% of women and 1.7% of men have been raped during their lifetimes... An estimated 43.9% of women and 23.4% of men experienced other forms of sexual violence during their lifetimes... Among female victims of completed rape, an estimated 78.7% were first raped before age 25 years (40.4% before age 18 years).