The study aimed to improve data collection on violence against women and to support the implementation of EU and Member State commitments to eliminate violence against women. Building on EIGE’s previous studies and work in this area, the study is a necessary step towards developing country-specific recommendations for Member States. This will improve administrative data collection on intimate partner violence and further the comparability of data across the EU-28.
More precisely, the study sought to:
Several international and EU commitments emphasise the need to tackle violence against women in general, and intimate partner violence in particular.
Intimate partner violence is a recurrent form of violence affecting women in the European Union. Efforts to combat this form of violence require an understanding of its scale and nature, through reliable, systematic and comparable data. Data is necessary to measure the prevalence and consequences of such violence, to monitor state responses to it and to evaluate policies combating it.
Intimate partner violence is a recurrent form of violence affecting women in the European Union. Efforts to combat this form of violence require an understanding of its scale and nature through reliable, systematic and comparable data. Data is necessary to measure the prevalence and consequences of such violence, to monitor state responses to it and to evaluate policies combating it.
The following recommendations aim to support Member States in their efforts to improve administrative data collection on intimate partner violence. Reliable, systematic and comparable data on intimate partner violence (IPV) is necessary to measure the extent, dynamics and consequences of this form of violence against women.