Developed at EIGE, The Gender Equality Index is a unique measurement tool that synthesises the complexity of gender equality as a multi-dimensional concept into a user-friendly and easily interpretable measure. It is formed by combining gender indicators, according to a conceptual framework, into a single summary measure.
The Index measures gender gaps that are adjusted to levels of achievement, ensuring that gender gaps cannot be regarded positively where they point to an adverse situation for both women and men. It assigns scores for Member States, between 1, total inequality and 100, full equality.
The Gender Equality Index consists of six core domains (work, money, knowledge, time, power and health) and two additional domains (intersecting inequalities and violence). Given the different nature of the latter two domains, only the core domains can be used in the computation of the Gender Equality Index score.
The Index is computed as follows. First, achievement-adjusted gender gaps are computed for all constituent metrics. Next, gaps for closely related metrics are combined to obtain sub-domain scores. The subdomain scores are then combined to obtain domain scores. Finally, the domain scores are combined to obtain the overall Gender Equality Index score.
This view presents the Violence domain and sub-domain scores as well as the values of the individual indicators used to compute these scores.
Note that in the Gender Statistics Database, the indicators used to calculate the Gender Equality Index, domain and sub-domain scores are reported according to the year the Gender Equality Index was published, rather than the year data was available. The violence domain has so far been covered in the 2017 and 2024 Gender Equality Index reports. Calculations for the 2017 Index were mostly based on data from 2012, the latest data available at the time, while the 2024 Index mostly used data from the 2021 wave of Eurostat's survey on gender based violence. Data for the scores of the violence domain and the underlying indicators are all reported for Index year 2017 and 2024 respectively.
Due to slight differences in methodologies between the EU-wide survey on violence against women conducted by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights in 2012 and the EU GBV survey (2021 wave), the 2024 composite measure scores are not fully comparable with scores calculated in 2017.
The table below presents an overview of the data used to compute the individual indicators in the Violence sub-domain for the 2024 edition of Gender Equality Index and how these differ from the data used in 2017. The table shows:
Further information on the methodology used to calculate scores for the Violence domain can be found in the 2024 Index report dedicated to violence.
| Sub-domain | Indicators and data source used in 2024 | Denominator | Differences from the 2017 edition |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prevalence | Percentage of women having experienced physical and/or sexual violence by any perpetrator since the age of 15 (among those aged 18-74); EU-GBV survey, 2021 wave (Eurostat (gbv_any_occ)). | All respondents (aged 18-74) | Physical and sexual violence include threats |
| Percentage of women having experienced physical and/or sexual violence by any perpetrator in the past 12 months (among those aged 18-74); EU-GBV survey, 2021 wave (Eurostat (gbv_any_occ)). | All respondents (aged 18-74) | ||
| Percentage of women victims of intentional homicide by a current or former partner or family member, per 100 000 inhabitants; Eurostat (crim_hom_vrel). | 100 000 inhabitants | No difference | |
| Severity | Percentage of women having experienced health-related consequences of physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15 (among those aged 18-74); EU-GBV survey, 2021 wave (Eurostat (gbv_any_cnqv)). | Respondents having experienced physical and/or sexual violence in the past 12 months (among those aged 18-74) | Consequences for psychological health are captured only for cases of repeated violence |
| Percentage of women having experienced health-related consequences of physical and/or sexual violence in the past 12 months (among those aged 18-74); EU-GBV survey, 2021 wave (Eurostat (gbv_any_injocc)). | Respondents having experienced physical and/or sexual violence (among those aged 18-74) | ||
| Percentage of women having experienced violence from several types of perpetrators (among those aged 18-74); EU-GBV survey, 2021 wave (microdata calculations). | Respondents having experienced physical and/or sexual violence (among those aged 18-74) | Types of perpetrators are characterised differently | |
| Disclosure | Percentage of women having experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15 and not having told anyone (among those aged 18-74); EU-GBV survey, 2021 wave (Eurostat (gbv_any_rp)). | Respondents having experienced physical and/or sexual violence since the age of 15 (among those aged 18-74) | Time frame is 'since the age of 15' instead of 'in the past 12 months' |
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 |