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 ever-working women aged 18-74 who have experienced online sexual harassment at work during their lifetime. Women have experienced online sexual harassment at work if they report that during their entire working life they have experienced one or more of the following unwanted behaviors related to work, and that this happened online (for example in social media, apps, email, text messages or online meetings and chats): (1) Exposure to sexually explicit images or videos that made them feel offended, humiliated, or intimidated; (2) Indecent sexual jokes or offensive remarks about their body or private life; (3) Inappropriate suggestions to go out on a date, which made them feel offended, humiliated, or intimidated; (4) Inappropriate suggestions for any sexual activity; (5) Inappropriate advances on social networking websites; (6) Inappropriate sexually explicit emails or text messages; (7) Somebody threatened them with unpleasant consequences if they refused sexual proposals or advances, and/or (8) Other similar behaviour at work with a sexual connotation which made them feel offended, humiliated, or intimidated.
Prevalence of online sexual harassment at work is calculated out of all women respondents who have ever worked during their lifetime, i.e. have ever had a paid employment or perfomed unpaid work at a business owned by a family member.
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 |