The European Institute for Gender Equality (EIGE) has developed 13 indicators on Intimate Partner Violence to guide and support the reporting process of Member States in order to meet their European and International commitments in relation to the fight against violence against women. Subsequently, EIGE has collected national-level administrative data from national police and justice sources against each of these 13 indicators.
The intimate partner violence: data collection methodology can be consulted here.
EIGE defines Intimate Partner Violence as “A pattern of assaultive and coercive behaviours, including physical, sexual and psychological acts, as well as economic coercion, which adults or adolescents may use against their intimate partners without their consent.” It includes “Any act of physical, sexual, psychological or economic violence that occurs between former or current spouses or partners, whether or not the perpetrator shares or has shared the same residence with the victim.”
Data in this table cover indicator 8 and represent the number of women victims of rape.
Victims are persons who have suffered harm directly caused by a criminal offence (here: rape). Rape is defined as Rape: Sexual penetration, whether vaginal, anal or oral, through the use of object or body parts, without consent, and/or using coercion, force or by taking advantage of the vulnerability of the victim.
While EIGE aims to collect comparable data adhering to the definitions of the 13 indicators, the data collection has shown that countries’ availability of this data is limited. Values shown in this data table are comparable, i.e. they comply with EIGE’s definition. The following caveats for the comparable data in the data table apply (indicated by flag (d) (definition differs, see metadata):
The table below provides links to Excel files for each country with all data and metadata collected (including non-comparable approximates) for each of the 13 indicators defined by EIGE. In the second column, any nuances to comparable data as provided in data table in EIGE’s Gender Statistics Database are described, where relevant (as indicated by the flag (d) (definition differs, see metadata) in the data table).
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Definition of data in data table differs (if applies) |
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2016-2018: Data are indicative due to quality concerns regarding data on victims. 2017: Previously reported data was from January to September. Revisions include data from January to December. |
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2015: Data include rape within the context of Intimate Partner Violence. 2018: Data include victims of all ages, and all perpetrators of all ages. |
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Data include all perpetrators of all ages. |
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Data include victims of all ages, and all perpetrators of all ages. |
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Data are not disaggregated by the sex and age of the perpetrator. |
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2014- 2017: Data include the number of reported rapes of victims aged 16 or older. |
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Data are not disaggregated by the age of the perpetrator and include attempted rape. |
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Luxembourg (LU) |
Data not yet available. |
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Hungary (HU) |
Data not yet available. |
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Data include both reported and attempted rape. |
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Data cover rape and sexual violence, and include victims aged 19 or older and perpetrators of all ages. |
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Data include rape, aggravated rape and coercion into sexual intercourse. Data include perpetrators of all ages. |
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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 |