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 the women aged 18-74 who have experienced cyber stalking by any perpetrator (partner, non-partner, male or female) during their lifetime involving a social media platform (such as Instagram, TikTok or Facebook) reported what happened to the platform.
This indicator is calculated out of all women respondents who have ever experienced cyber stalking that involved a social media platform. Women have experienced cyber stalking if they report that the same person repeatedly (more than once) has done one or more of the following things to them in a manner which caused them fear, alarm or distress, and that this happened online (for example through emails, text messages, the use of social networking sites or online meetings and chats): (1) Sent them unwanted messages (including messages on social media), emails, letters or gifts; (2) Made obscene, threatening, nuisance or silent calls; (3) 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; (4) Made offensive or embarrassing comments about them publicly (including on social networks), and/or (5) Published photos, videos or highly personal information about them, online or elsewhere.
Only a small subsample of the eligible respondents were asked this question in Luxembourg and Sweden. Consequently, data from these countries cannot be reported.
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 |