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 what percentage of women aged 18-74 who have experienced stalking during their lifetime have suffered psychological problems as a consequence of this violence. Psychological problems may include depression, panic attacks, problems with concentration, problems in sleeping or eating or other consequences.
Prevalence of psychological problems as a consequence of stalking is calculated out of all women who have experienced stalking by any perpetrator (partner, non-partner, male or female) during their lifetime, i.e. the same person has repeatedly (more than once) ever done one or more of the following things, in a manner which caused them fear, alarm or distress: (1) Sent them unwanted messages (including messages on social media), emails, letters or gifts; (2) Made obscene, threatening, nuisance or silent calls; (3) Tried insistently to be in touch with them, waiting or loitering outside their home, school or workplace; (4) Followed or spied on them in person; (5) Followed or spied on them remotely, such as installing a tracking app on their phone, using a GPS device or accessing their mobile phone’s location data; (6) Intentionally damaged their things (car, motorbike, mailbox, etc.) or the belongings of people they care about, or harmed their animals; (7) Made offensive or embarrassing comments about them publicly (including on social networks), and/or (8) Published photos, videos or highly personal information about them, online or elsewhere.
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 |