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 sexual harassment by any perpetrator (partner, non-partner, male or female) outside their working life during their lifetime, and indicated that this harassment happened online, such as on websites, social media, dating or messaging apps or other applications. Women have experience sexual harassment outside their working life if they have experienced one or more of the following unwanted behaviors: (1) Inappropriate staring or leering that made them feel uncomfortable; (2) Exposure to sexually explicit images or videos that made them feel offended, humiliated, or intimidated; (3) Indecent sexual jokes or offensive remarks about their body or private life; (4) Inappropriate suggestions to go out on a date, which made them feel offended, humiliated, or intimidated; (5) Inappropriate suggestions for any sexual activity; (6) Inappropriate advances on social networking websites; (7) Inappropriate sexually explicit emails or text messages; (8) Somebody threatened them with unpleasant consequences if they refused sexual proposals or advances, and/or (9) Other similar behaviour with a sexual connotation which made them feel offended, humiliated, or intimidated.
Prevalence of sexual harassment outside working life is calculated out of all women respondents.
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 |