Assault Against Women
Misshandel mot kvinnor
Used as indicator
- Monitoring (trend data)
- Evaluation
Data available on
Perpetrator
Background information
- Age
- Sex
- Nationality
- ID
- Name
- Ethnicity
- Marital status
- Dependants
Incident
Incident
Gender of victim and offender, -Number of reported cases, -Number of suspected offenders, -Share of reported cases where a suspect could be found.
Criminal statistics on sexual violence
Criminal statistical data included
From Nationella trygghetsundersökningen (National Survey of Crime and Safety). - Number of women stating that violence has caused them bodily harm - Specifications of the victims declaration of relation to the offender - Specifications of what groups of women that are victims of violence
Characteristics
Reference period
Frequency of updating
Validation
Data has been validated before entering the National Crime Database
Compilation
Experts choose relevant facts from the National Crime Database.
Quality assurance process
Compiling is done by criminologists that get their data from high quality databases both on crime registration and survey data.
Accuracy
Good. Very high accuracy, since the source database combines data from different sources and adds a prevalence survey as a triangulation factor. The data is used only within their limitations and presumptions made only with a reasoning of how the conclusion was drawn.
Reliability
Good. Depending on the quality of the data sources, where reliability is high.
Timeliness
Good. Yearly updating is the closest possible since the product compiles data from different sources and the data needs to be definitive, and not estimations or preliminary data.
Comparability
- Geographical
- Over time
- None
It is possible to retrieve the same facts in the homepage database, comparable over time and over both regions and municipalities.
Current developments
No information available