Percentage of respondents who consider it acceptable for a man to occasionally slap his wife or girlfriend

Percentage of respondents who consider it acceptable for a man to occasionally slap his wife or girlfriend genvio_att_opin_acc__eb_fl544_slapaccept

Time format:

Years

Unit:

Percent (comparable)

Description:

This indicator presents data from the European Commission’s 2024 flash Eurobarometer survey on gender stereotypes and violence against women (FL544).

It shows the percentage of respondents who find it acceptable or unacceptable for a man to occasionally slap his wife or girlfriend.

The indicator presents data for women, men, and total respondents.

Survey participants were asked whether they consider it acceptable or unacceptable for a man to occasionally slap his wife/girlfriend. For Lithuania, it should be noted that the translation used for ‘slapping’ may have been understood as less severe as the meaning in English, but no other word exists to translate ‘slapping’ in Lithuanian. This may explain why a higher percentage of respondents in Lithuania (32%) found the action acceptable in certain circumstances, compared to the average EU-27 Member State (4%).

Keywords:

attitudes, GBV, gender based violence, gender-based violence, ICT, information and communication technology, information technology, IT, perceptions, violence

Select all	Code	Label
	UNACC	Unacceptable
	COND	Acceptable under certain circumstances
	ACC	Acceptable
	DK	Don't know/prefer not to answer

Select all	Code	Label
	EU27_2020	European Union - 27 countries (from 2020)
	BE	Belgium
	BG	Bulgaria
	CZ	Czechia
	DK	Denmark
	DE	Germany
	EE	Estonia
	IE	Ireland
	EL	Greece
	ES	Spain
	FR	France
	HR	Croatia
	IT	Italy
	CY	Cyprus
	LV	Latvia
	LT	Lithuania
	LU	Luxembourg
	HU	Hungary
	MT	Malta
	NL	Netherlands
	AT	Austria
	PL	Poland
	PT	Portugal
	RO	Romania
	SI	Slovenia
	SK	Slovakia
	FI	Finland
	SE	Sweden

		answer
geo

UNACC

COND

ACC

99.1

0.8

0.1

94.7

3.6

0.8

96.3

2.2

0.5

5.5

1.2

1.4

96.7

1.2

1.3

0.8

92.6

5.3

1.5

0.6

93.8

1.5

0.6

96.4

1.9

1.5

0.3

92.4

4.5

1.7

1.5

95.3

2.4

1.7

0.6

2.5

1.8

0.7

93.9

3.4

1.8

0.9

95.1

2.4

1.9

0.6

94.6

2.8

0.6

92.5

4.3

2.2

94.4

2.4

0.7

93.2

3.4

2.4

92.2

2.4

0.4

EU27_2020

92.2

4.1

2.6

1.1

90.9

4.7

2.6

1.8

87.8

7.7

2.6

1.9

91.3

4.3

2.9

1.6

91.3

5.1

0.7

86.9

8.3

3.3

1.5

91.2

3.8

3.3

1.8

90.8

4.8

3.7

0.6

89.1

4.6

4.4

1.8

55.1^(d)

32^(d)

8.2^(d)

4.6^(d)

Available flags:

b	break in time series	c	confidential
d	definition differs, see metadata	e	estimated
f	forecast	i	see metadata
m	imputed	n	not significant
p	provisional	r	revised
s	Eurostat estimate	u	low reliability
x	dropped due to insufficient sample size	y	unreliable due to small sample size
z	not applicable

Percentage of respondents who consider it acceptable for a man to occasionally slap his wife or girlfriend genvio_att_opin_acc__eb_fl544_slapaccept

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