Data on Incidents of Domestic Violence (No official name)
Data available on
Perpetrator
Background information
No information collected on Background information
Relationship with victim
This means that this kind of information is not recorded by this data source.
Re-offending
Witness
Background information
No information collected on Background information
Relationship with victim/perpetrator
Incident description by witness
Children witnessing IPV incident
Incident
Code system used
- Specific to organisation
The Counteracting Domestic Violence Act (2005/2010)
Description of incident
- Date/time
- Harm/injuries
- Location
- Type of violence
The type of the service provided to the victim of domestic violence (crisis centre, the shelter).
Protection order
Civil justice data
Incident respond resources
No information collected on Incident respond resources
Prosecution process
This administrative data source does not collect information on Prosecution process
Outcomes
This administrative data source does not collect information on Outcomes
Characteristics
Storage System
- In paper form
- Electronically (single files)
- Electronically (database)
The data is entered on paper during the Blue Card procedure. Then it is entered (optional for the social care professional) to each local unit's data base. Only the data on the number of interventions/social assistance provided data is reported to voivodeships authorities that validate this information and report only the data on social assistance provided by each voivodeships to the Ministry. Data are reported in the form of statistics not in a database but through an Internet application.
Frequency of updating
Annually
Quality assurance process
No information available
Comparability
- Geographical
- Over time
- None
Timeliness
> 1 year
The data is collected by the Ministry on the yearly basis.
Current developments
Current developments and plans to improve the reporting system, include recording "gender" variable.
Relation with third parties
Reporter
- Victim
- Witness
- Offender
Data on the numbers of victims that were assisted by the social care units (without "gender" of the victims specified as of 2012)
The data is collected by the Ministry of Labour as a requirement of the National Program for Counteracting Domestic violence. All data is included in the National report on implementation of the National Program for Counteracting Domestic violence.