Indicator 6: Annual number of women (aged 18 and over) victims of sexual intimate partner violence committed by men (aged 18 and over), as recorded by police

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Indicator 6

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6. Indicator 6: Annual number of women

(aged 18 and over) victims of sexual

intimate partner violence committed by

men (aged 18 and over), as recorded by

police

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

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

6.1. Statistical unit

The statistical unit for indicator 6 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’ (50).

6.2. Type of oence

The oence covered by indicator 6 is that of

sexual intimate partner violence, dened as any

sexual act per formed on the victim without con-

sent. Sexual violence can take the form of rape

or sexual assault (51).

6.3. Reference area

Comparable data are available for:

• Czechia

• Germany

• France

• Latvia

• Lithuania

• Slovenia

• Finland.

Non-comparable data are available for:

• Belgium

• Estonia

• Greece

• Spain

• Croatia

• Cyprus

• Malta

• Austria

• Portugal

• Slovakia

• United Kingdom-England and Wales

• United Kingdom-Northern Ireland

• United Kingdom-Scotland.

No data are available for:

• Bulgaria

• Denmark

• Ireland

• Italy

• Luxembourg

• Hungary

• Netherlands

• Poland

• Romania

• Sweden.

6.4. Time coverage

Data and metadata for indicator 6 were col-

lected for the period 2014-2018.

The following exceptions apply to comparable

data: