Indicator 2: Annual number of reported offences related to intimate partner violence against women committed by men (aged 18 and over)

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Indicator 2

Intimate partner violence: data collection methodology 23

2. Indicator 2: Annual number of reported

oences related to intimate partner

violence against women committed by

men (aged 18 and over)

(38) https://eige.europa.eu/publications/police-and-justice-sector-data-intimate-partner-violence-against-women-european-union

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

2.1. Statistical unit

The statistical unit for indicator 2 is the num-

ber of repor ted oences. Repor ted oences

are dened as incidents that are recorded by

the police forces’ (38). A single oence may be

recorded with each contravention of an article

of criminal law counted separately, even where

they happened within the same criminal event.

2.2. Type of oence

The oence covered by indicator 2 is intimate part-

ner violence, dened as any act of physical, sexual,

psychological or economic violence that occurs

between former or current spouses or par tners,

whether or not the perpetrator shares or has

shared the same residence with the victim’ (39).

2.3. Reference area

Data and metadata were collected at the

national level for 27 EU Member States, and the

three devolved jurisdictions that are the law ful

authorities in the policy area of law and order in

the United Kingdom (England and Wales, North-

ern Ireland and Scotland).

Comparable data are available for:

• Czechia

• Spain

• Latvia

• Slovenia

• Sweden

• United Kingdom-Scotland.

Non-comparable data are available for:

• Belgium

• Bulgaria

• Estonia

• Greece

• France

• Croatia

• Italy

• Cyprus

• Malta

• Austria

• Portugal

• Slovakia

• Finland

• United Kingdom-England and Wales

• United Kingdom-Northern Ireland.

No data are available for:

• Denmark

• Germany

• Ireland

• Lithuania

• Luxembourg

• Hungary

• Netherlands

• Poland

• Romania.

2.4. Time coverage

Data and metadata for indicator 2 were collec-

ted for the period 2014-2018.