Inhalt: The ambitions of the European Commission’s work on gender equality are set out in the Gender Equality Strategy
for 2020-2025(1). One of the key prerequisites in achieving a gender-equal Europe is preventing and combating
all forms of violence against women and girls, supporting and protecting victims of such crimes, and holding
perpetrators accountable for their abusive behaviour. The strategy emphasizes that gender-based violence – that is,
violence that is directed against a woman because she is a woman or that affects women disproportionately(2) – is
still one of our societies’ biggest challenges and is deeply rooted in gender inequality(3).
The EU and its Member States are committed to achieving their objective and working towards ending gender-
based violence through legislation and practical measures to uphold victims’ rights(4). A range of EU directives
and other instruments are already in place requiring that the Member States establish minimum standards on
crime victims’ rights and on support and protection, ensure compensation to crime victims, prohibit sex-based
harassment, and establish systems for mutual recognition of protection measures in civil and criminal matters.
Regrettably, enforcement of these issues is still limited, and violence remains under-reported(5).
To develop efficient and effective policy and legal responses to end gender-based violence, accurate data are
necessary. Thus, the Gender Equality Strategy for 2020-2025 calls for comprehensive, updated and comparable data
for policies on combating gender-based violence. To obtain a complete picture of gender-based violence, data
should be disaggregated by relevant intersectional aspects and indicators such as age, disability status, migrant
status and rural/urban residence. The Council of Europe’s Convention on preventing and combating violence
against women and domestic violence, known as the Istanbul Convention(6) also underlined the importance of
relevant statistics. The Istanbul Convention states, ‘For the purpose of implementation of this Convention, Parties
shall undertake to collect disaggregated relevant statistical data … [and] … shall endeavour to conduct population-
based surveys at regular intervals to assess the prevalence of and trends in all forms of violence covered by the
scope of this Convention’.
To respond to these needs, Eurostat has developed, with national statistical institutes (NSIs), a sound survey
methodology and harmonised questionnaire for a EU-wide survey that will provide comparable data across Europe
on the prevalence and dynamics of violence against women and other forms of inter-personal violence (EU-GBV).
The EU-GBV survey questionnaire and methodology are now ready and described in this methodological manual.
Schlagwörter:intimate partner violence; questionnaire; statistics and numerical data; Umfragenmethodik
CEWS Kategorie:Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht