The 2022 U.S. Merchant Marine Academy (USMMA) Gender Relations Survey: Overview Report (2022 SAGR) presents results on unwanted sexual contact and sex-based military equal opportunity (MEO) violations. The purpose of the 2022 SAGR is to provide the official prevalence estimates for unwanted sexual contact and MEO violations among USMMA students in the past academic program year and statistical change of those estimates over time. The 2022 SAGR also assesses sexual assault/sexual harassment reporting and complaint processes and measures midshipman attitudes toward and perceptions of sexual assault and sexual harassment programs and policies designed to reduce the occurrence of these unwanted behaviors. Data were collected for the 2022 SAGR at the USMMA in two waves, from March 21 through March 25, 2022, and from August 29 through 30, 2022.
Note: Prior to 2025, OPA research products used the term “gender” to describe men and women. These groups were defined using survey items and/or administrative data categories for “male” and “female”; therefore, references to gender should be understood to mean “sex”.