Indicator 1: Annual number of women (aged 18 and over) victims of intimate partner violence committed by men (aged 18 and over), as recorded by police

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Indicator 1

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1. Indicator 1: Annual number of women

(aged 18 and over) victims of intimate

partner violence committed by men (aged

18 and over), as recorded by police

(34) https://eige.europa.eu/thesaurus/terms/1424

(35) https://eige.europa.eu/publications/glossary-definitions-rape-femicide-and-intimate-partner-violence

1.1. Statistical unit

The statistical unit for indicator 1 is the num-

ber of victims. A victim is ‘a natural person who

has suered harm, including physical, mental

or emotional harm or economic loss which was

directly caused by a criminal oence, as well as

the family members of a person whose death

was directly caused by a criminal oence and

who have suered harm as a result of that per-

son’s death’ (34).

1.2. Type of oence

The oence covered by indicator 1 is that of inti-

mate partner violence, dened as any act of phys-

ical, sexual, psychologic al or economic violence

that occurs between former or current spouses or

partners, whether or not the perpetrator shares or

has shared the same residence with the victim’ (35).

1.3. Reference area

Data and metadata for indicator 1 were col-

lected at national level for 27 Member States

and the three devolved jurisdictions that are

the lawful authorities in the policy area of law

and order in the United Kingdom (England and

Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland).

Comparable data are available for:

• C zechia

• Germany

• L atvia

• Slovenia.

Non-comparable data are available for:

• B ulgaria

• E stonia

• Greece

• F rance

• Croatia

• Cy pr us

• L ithuania

• Malta

• Austria

• Poland

• Romania

• F inland

• United Kingdom- England and Wales

• United Kingdom-Northern Ireland

• United Kingdom-Scotland.

No data are available for:

• Belgium

• Denmark

• Ireland

• Spain

• It aly

• Luxembourg

• Hungary

• Netherlands

• Portugal

• Slovakia

• Sweden.