Survey on Life Events and Health
Enquête Événements de vie et santé
Used as indicator
Data available on
Perpetrator
This statistical product does not collect information on Perpetrator
Incident
Incident
It provides data on different types of sexual violence but the questionnaire is not based on a criminal approach: the interviewees answer about violent events that are factually described but not based on a criminal nomenclature.
Criminal statistics on sexual violence
Criminal statistical data included
Characteristics
Reference period
Whole life and detailed questions on the last two years.
Frequency of updating
No further identical survey planned. One-shot operation
Validation
The quality of this survey is guaranteed by the best procedures of the French public statistical system.
Compilation
Particularly, sampling and collection methods offer a good means to know what type of representativeness the data can pretend to. A particular effort was provided to make the survey comparable to previous national or foreign data.
Quality assurance process
Particularly, sampling and collection methods offer a good means to know what type of representativeness the data can pretend to. A particular effort was provided to make the survey comparable to previous national or foreign data.
Accuracy
No information. All those aspects are well documented in a synthetic collective publication: Beck François, Cavalin Catherine, Maillochon Florence (eds.), 2010, Violence et santé en France : état des lieux, Paris, la documentation française. It helps in making comparisons between sources, particularly about the concepts used in different surveys and the effects the methods have on the statistical outputs.
Reliability
No information. One of the main limitations of the impact of this survey lies in the fact that it doesn’t identify intimate partner violence as such. The relationship between the victim and the perpetrator is restricted to “family”, “friends”, “known people” vs. “unknown” perpetrators. For judicial reasons, the survey could not precisely ask about the identity of the partner.
Timeliness
No information. The data can easily be downloaded via the « réseau Quételet » (http://www.reseau-quetelet.cnrs.fr/quetelet/quetelet.php).
Comparability
- Geographical
- Over time
- None
Current developments
No information available
External link
Published online « réseau Quételet » (http://www.reseau-quetelet.cnrs.fr/quetelet/quetelet.php).