This indicator presents data from the EU survey on gender-based violence against women and other forms of inter-personal violence (EU-GBV survey). The first wave of this survey was conducted jointly by Eurostat, EIGE, and FRA between September 2020 and March 2024. Eurostat coordinated data collection in 18 Member States (BE, BG, DK, EE, EL, ES, FR, HR, LV, LT, MT, NL, AT, PL, PT, SI, SK, FI), and the indicators disseminated for Italy (IT) were based on the most recent national survey with available results (2014). To cover the full EU, FRA and EIGE launched a joint data collection in the eight Member States not covered by Eurostat (CZ, DE, IE, CY, LU, HU, RO, SE) following the EU-GBV survey manual. This data collection used an extended questionnaire that included additional items to reflect emerging policy priorities and research needs. This indicator is calculated based on these additional items used in the eight Member States not covered by Eurostat.
This indicator shows the percentage of women aged 18-74 who have experienced cyber violence by any perpetrator (partner, non-partner, male or female) during their lifetime. Women have experienced cyber violence if they report that somebody, one or more times, has done at least one of the following things to them, and that this happened online (for example through emails, text messages, the use of social networking sites or online meetings and chats): (1) Shared or threatened to share intimate photos or videos of them, real or manipulated, in a way that was meant to cause them harm; (2) Shared their personal information, such as their name, address or telephone number in a way that was meant to cause them harm; (3) Spread comments about them that were false, in a way that was meant to cause them harm; (4) Tried to track their movements or spy on them such as installing a tracking app on their phone, or hiding a GPS tracking device in their bag or their pocket, or accessing their mobile phone’s location data without their permission; and/or (5) Used abusive, sexist language about them because they are a woman, such as swear words or other derogatory terms specifically against women.
Prevalence of cyber violence is calculated out of all women respondents.
The indicator presents data for respondents by type of cyber violence
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 |