Indicator 3: Annual number of men (aged 18 and over) perpetrators of intimate partner violence against women (and percentage of male population that are perpetrators)

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Indicator 3

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3. Indicator 3: Annual number of men

(aged 18 and over) perpetrators of intimate

partner violence against women (and

percentage of male population that are

perpetrators)

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

(42) https://eige.europa.eu/publications/glossary-definitions-rape-femicide-and-intimate-par tner-violence

3.1. Statistical unit

The statistical unit for indicator 3 is the number

of men perpetrators. A perpetrator is dened

as a ‘person brought into formal contact with

the police and suspected/arrested or cautioned

for a criminal oence of intimate par tner vio-

lence’ (41).

3.2. Type of oence

The oence covered by indicator 3 is intimate

partner violence, dened as any act of physical,

sexual, ps ychological 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 vic-

tim’ (42).

3.3. Reference area

Comparable data are available for:

• Belgium

• Czechia

• Slovenia

• Finland

• Sweden.

Non-comparable data are available for:

• Germany

• Estonia

• Greece

• Spain

• Croatia

• Cyprus

• Poland

• Portugal

• United Kingdom-Northern Ireland

• United Kingdom-Scotland.

No data are available for:

• Bulgaria

• Denmark

• Ireland

• France

• Italy

• Latvia

• Lithuania

• Luxembourg

• Hungary

• Malta

• Netherlands

• Austria

• Romania

• Slovakia

• United Kingdom-England and Wales.

3.4. Time coverage

Data and metadata for indicator 3 were col-

lected for the period 2014-2018.

The following exceptions apply to non-compa-

rable data: