Escolar Documentos
Profissional Documentos
Cultura Documentos
Justice
Health
Social services
Other
15 %
30 %
22 %
8%
25 %
All materials
All materials
available
available
at http://eige.europa.eu
at http://eige.europa.eu
Police
Type of information available
Sexual
assault
Health
8
Police
23
Justice
18
Health
10
Police
27
Justice
20
Health
10
Justice
10
Health
0
Justice
11
Health
0
Rape
No of Member States
Justice
16
Sexual
harassment
No of Member States
Police
28
Police
12
Stalking
No of Member States
(excl. rape)
No of Member States
IPV
No of Member States
Number of administrative data sources per type of gender-based violence and sector
Police
15
Social
service
16
Social
service
13
Social
service
12
Social
service
Social
service
Other
12
Other
7
Other
7
Other
6
Other
4
There are 43 police data sources on gender-based violence with a national scope available
across the EU-28, and at least one source per Member State on intimate partner violence.
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Criteria
Number of
sources
Number of
EU Member
States
Comparability
77
23
16
Good timeliness
Immediately
74
17
15
Frequency of updating
82
27
22
Quality assurance
process in place
Currently in place
96
24
18
Justice
Type of information available
Administrative data sources on gender-based violence (GBV) in the justice sector in the EU
BE
Belgium
BG
Bulgaria
CZ
Czech Republic
DK
Denmark
DE
Germany
EE
Estonia
IE
Ireland
EL
Greece
ES
Spain
FR
France
HR
Croatia
IT
Italy
CY
Cyprus
LV
Latvia
LT
Lithuania
LU
Luxembourg
HU
Hungary
MT
Malta
NL
Netherlands
AT
Austria
PL
Poland
PT
Portugal
RO
Romania
SI
Slovenia
SK
Slovakia
FI
Finland
SE
Sweden
UK
United Kingdom
Thirty-six justice data sources on gender-based violence with a national scope are available
across 23 Member States.
Characteristics and quality of data
The main purposes of justice data sources are
monitoring, providing evaluation of policies
and ensuring victim protection. Similar to the
police data sources, the majority of data in the
justice sector is kept electronically (93%).
The use of a coding system enables easier and
quicker access to and analysis of data. The
coding system used by many sources from the
justice sector is based on national criminal/
civil law in the Member State. However, there is
room for improvement as this happens only in
59% of the sources.
Criteria
Number of
sources
Number of
EU Member
States
Comparability
74
17
15
Good timeliness
Immediately
71
Frequency of updating
57
16
13
83
17
12
Social services
Type of information available
The social services sector includes support
centres, shelters, legal and physical counselling
and helplines.
The social services sector is highly important
as many victims who do not report an incident
of gender-based violence to the authorities
request services from these institutions.
Despite the complexity of the organisation and
structure of this sector in many Member States,
BE
Belgium
LU
Luxembourg
BG
Bulgaria
HU
Hungary
CZ
Czech Republic
MT
Malta
DK
Denmark
NL
Netherlands
DE
Germany
AT
Austria
EE
Estonia
PL
Poland
IE
Ireland
PT
Portugal
EL
Greece
RO
Romania
ES
Spain
SI
Slovenia
FR
France
SK
Slovakia
HR
Croatia
FI
Finland
IT
Italy
SE
Sweden
CY
Cyprus
UK
LV
Latvia
United
Kingdom
LT
Lithuania
There are 32 social services data sources on gender-based violence with a national scope
available across 19 Member States, most of them covering intimate partner violence.
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Criteria
Number of
sources
Number of
EU Member
States
Comparability
57
16
12
Good timeliness
Immediately
28
Frequency of updating
60
18
13
Quality assurance
process in place
Currently in place
70
16
11
Health
Type of information available
Criteria
Number of
sources
Number of
EU Member
States
Comparability
71
Good timeliness
Immediately
43
Frequency of updating
70
Quality assurance
process in place
Yes
90
10
Other sectors
Finally, in 13 Member States (EE, IE, EL, FR, HR,
CY, LV, HU, MT, PL, PT, SI and UK) administrative
data sources have been identified that do not
10
Challenges
Administrative data do not show prevalence,
only reported cases.
Lack of common understanding in
terminology, as different terms and
definitions (victim, shelter, etc.) are used
between institutions.
Over-reporting, as the same victim can ask
for different types of support within social
services, thus one incident may be recorded
more than once.
Confidentiality laws and provisions for the
safety of the victim vary between Member
States.
Legal provisions on and criminalisation
of gender-based violence vary between
Member States and influence data collection.
Lack of human and economic resources and
adequate training.
Not all recorded data are disaggregated by
sex.
In many sources, data on the victim or
perpetrator are not systematically recorded.
Difficulties in comparability within the same
organisation and across organisations.
MH-01-15-110-EN-N
ISBN 978-92-9218-673-9
doi:10.2839/47256