FRA's Fundamental Rights Survey

• Author: European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (EU body or agency)
• Pages: 7-17

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FRA’s Fundamental Rights Survey collected data from 35,000 people about

their experiences, perceptions and opinions on arange of issues that involve

fundamental rights. They include awareness of rights, discrimination and

equality of treatment, data protection and privacy, and crime victimisation.

This is the second main report from the survey. It focuses on selected questions

on respondents’ experiences as victims of crime. Becoming avictim of

crime– in particular violent crime– undermines core human and fundamental

rights. It is an extreme manifestation of violation of one’s rights, which can

encompass the right to life and human dignity in the context of violent crime,

alongside access to justice when reporting crime and non-discrimination in

one’s treatment as avictim. Other rights, including those related to property

and consumer protection, are also affected, as this report shows. It focuses on:

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violence,

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harassment, both online and off‌line,

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and property crimes– burglary, misuse of someone’s online bank account

or payment cards, and consumer fraud.

The report also examines how often these crimes are reported to the police,

and presents further details about harassment and violence, such as information

on the perpetrators and where the incidents took place. The selection of these

crimes ref‌lects both in-person and property offences, and both ‘traditional’

crime, such as burglary, and crimes that can take place both online and off‌line.

In addition to personal experiences of victimisation, the analysis examines

how concerned people are about experiencing crime, and if they have adopted

measures in response to perceived risk of assault or harassment to avoid

situations where such incidents could occur.

The report also examines how willing people would be to intervene, report to

the police or, if asked, give evidence in court in three hypothetical scenarios:

physical violence between partners, physical violence against achild, and

acrime against the environment.

FRA’s Fundamental Rights Survey

The Fundamental Rights Survey collected data in 29 countries: 27 EU Member States, the

United Kingdom (an EU Member State at the time) and North Macedonia (the only non-

EU country with observer status at FRA when the survey was designed). In each country,

arepresentative sample of respondents– ranging from about 1,000 in most countries to

about 3,000 in France and Germany– participated in the survey. The survey interviews,

which took place between January and October2019, resulted in atotal sample of 34,948

respondents (see AnnexI, Table1).

The results are representative at the EU level, as well as for each country, of people who are

16 years old or older and usually reside in the country where they took part in the survey.

Information concerning the technical implementation of the survey is available in AnnexII.

The dedicated Technical Report provides further details concerning survey development,

f‌ieldwork implementation and outcomes (forthcoming 2021).

Fundamental

Rights Survey:

key facts