The Sexual Assault Prevention and Response Office within the Office of the Secretaryof Defense selected the RAND Corporation to provide a new and independent evaluationof sexual assault, sexual harassment, and gender discrimination across the U.S.military. The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) asked the RAND research teamto redesign the approach used in previous DoD surveys, if changes would improvethe accuracy and validity of the survey results for estimating the prevalence of sexualcrimes and violations. In the summer of 2014, RAND fielded a new survey as part ofthe RAND Military Workplace Study.

This report describes survey data analyses designed to identify characteristics ofservice members and of the environments in which members work that are associatedwith each individual’s risk of sexual assault or sexual harassment. The series that collectivelydescribes the study methodology and its findings, to date, includes the followingreports: