This study is one of EIGE’s several initiatives to improve the current situation of administrative data collection on violence against women in the EU.
This report provides the results of EIGE’s second data collection exercise, which ran between 2023 and 2024, covers the period 2014-2022 and analyses the current state of data collection in the police and justice sectors on intimate partner violence, domestic violence, rape and femicide across 26 Member States.
It also identifies the persistent gaps that hinder comparability, highlights promising practices, and sets out recommendations to improve the quality and usability of administrative data across the EU.
To provide a fuller picture of how gender‑based violence is recorded and understood, the report contextualises the latest administrative data with findings from the 2024 EU-GBV Survey (FRA, EIGE, Eurostat, 2024) and Flash Eurobarometer survey 544 (‘gender stereotypes – violence against women’) together with case studies illustrating recent legal and policy developments in Member States.
Together, these sources show how reporting patterns, institutional practices and national frameworks shape the visibility of violence in official statistics.
The publication ultimately aims to support both Member States and EU institutions in building stronger, more coherent data systems, an essential foundation for designing effective policies to prevent and respond to violence against women.
