Proportion (%) of ever-partnered women having experienced repeated physical and/or sexual violence by an intimate partner who did not seek professional support, by reason genvio_ser_use_ext__gbvx_i08_3

Time format:
Years
Unit:
Percentage (comparable)
Description:

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 ever-partnered women aged 18-74 who have experienced repeated physical and/or sexual violence by any of their partners (current or former) during their lifetime did not seek professional support, by reason. Professional support includes somebody from the health services such as doctor or nurse, somebody from social services, a professional providing specialised psychological support and/or a helpline and/or victim support organization.

For women having experienced repeated violence by a former partner, the indicator was calculated only out of women whose last violent former partner was repeatedly violent, i.e. not out of women who had one or more repeatedly violent former partners followed by former partners who were violent once. Repeated violence (series of episodes) refers to similar violent episodes repeated by the same person(s), during which similar thing(s) are done under the same circumstances more than once. For instance, a woman might be beaten by her partner in several episodes over a period of three years.

The indicator presents data for respondents by reason for not seeking professional support

  • Contacted somebody else instead
  • It wouldn’t have helped
  • Discouraged by someone, such as police, relatives, friends, etc.
  • Fear of the perpetrator/fear of consequences/afraid of consequences for perpetrator
  • Embarrassment/self-blame
  • Not serious enough/inappropriate for professional support/not necessary
  • This is a private or family matter, solved it by myself
  • Any reason
HU
CZ
RO
DE
SE
CY
IE
LU
2024
HU
86.4
CZ
75.3
RO
74.8
DE
71.7
SE
63.7
CY
60.4
IE
57.8
LU
52.1

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