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-partnered women aged 18-74 who have experienced economic violence by an intimate partner during their lifetime. Women have experienced economic violence if any of their partners (including their current and previous partners) have ever done one or more of the following things: (1) Forbidden them to work; (2) Controlled the whole family finances and excessively controlled their expenses; (3) Discouraged or actively interfered with their employment or education; (4) Hidden or withheld money from them, or lied about shared property and assets, or kept financial information from them; (5) Prevented them from having access to a bank account; (6) Taken their wages, pension, financial aid, disability payment, or other support payments from them; (7) Stolen money from them or forced them to give them money, access to their debit or credit card, or convinced them to lend them money but did not pay it back, and/or (8) Built up debt without their knowledge, when they would be fully or partly responsible for it – for example by leaving bills unpaid.
Prevalence of violence by an intimate partner is calculated out of women who have ever been in intimate partnership. Intimate partners are persons with whom a respondent has or had an intimate relationship. Intimate partners include a partner by marriage, civil union or registered partnership or another person with whom the respondent is in a relationship. The latter can include intimate partners who are or are not living with the respondent (e.g. dating partners). It includes the respondent’s current partner and any former partners, male or female.
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 |