Inhalt: This is the first European Union (EU)-wide survey to collect comparable data on women’s experiences of gender-based violence in all 28 EU Member States. The European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) carried out the survey in response to a request from the European Parliament for data on violence against women, which the Council of the EU reiterated in its Conclusions on the eradication of violence against women in the EU.
This report presents a detailed overview of the research methods used by FRA when collecting survey data on women’s personal experiences of various forms of violence. FRA started to develop the survey through desk research and stakeholder consultations in 2010, followed by a pretest study in six EU Member States in 2011 to test a draft questionnaire. The full-scale survey in the EU-28 was carried out in 2012. The survey interviewed a total of 42,000 women – 1,500 in each of the 28 EU Member States, with the exception of Luxembourg, where the sample size was 900 women. Respondents were selected using a random probability methodology to give a representative sample of the female population aged 18–74 years in each country. All respondents were interviewed face to face by female interviewers, who received training in person to address the topics covered in the survey. The training included measures to ensure that the interviewers carried out the interviews in a sensitive and confidential manner.
Schlagwörter:method; Methodenbericht; sample size; Survey; violence against women; sexuelle Belästigung; sexuelle Gewalt; sexual harassment; sexual violence;
CEWS Kategorie:Europa und Internationales, Sexuelle Belästigung und Gewalt
Dokumenttyp:Graue Literatur, Bericht
