Indicator 9: Women victims of intimate femicide (aged 18 and over) committed by a male intimate partner (aged 18 and over), as a share of the women victims of homicide (aged 18 and over)

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Indicator 9

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9. Indicator 9: Women victims of intimate

femicide (aged 18 and over) committed

by a male intimate partner (aged 18 and

over), as a share of the women victims of

homicide (aged 18 and over)

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

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

9.1. Statistical unit

The statistical unit for indicator 9 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’ (61).

9.2. Type of oence

The oence covered by indicator 9 is intimate

femicide, dened as the killing of a woman by an

intimate partner and the death of a woman as

a result of a practice that is harmful to women.

Intimate partner is understood as a former or

current spouse or partner, whether or not the

perpetrator shares or has shared the same res-

idence with the victim’ (62).

Femicide is not a recognised separate legal

oence in any EU Member State jurisdiction.

Therefore, indicator 9 collects data on homicide.

The indicator presents the share of all homicide

victims that were victims of intimate partner

homicide. In order to calculate the share, data

were collected on all women homicide victims,

as well as women victims of intimate partner

homicide. Comparable data refer to Member

States’ jurisdictions that have data for both and

(closely) adhere to EIGEs denitions for both in

order to calculate the proportion. Where only

data for all homicides were available, these are

considered non-comparable, as they do not

allow for calculation of the share.

9.3. Reference area

Data and metadata for indicator 9 were collected

at the national level for 27 EU Member States

and the three devolved jurisdictions which 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:

• Czechia

• Germany

• Spain

• France

• Italy

• Latvia

• Lithuania

• Malta

• Netherlands

• Slovenia

• Slovakia

• Finland

• Sweden

• United Kingdom-Scotland.

Non-comparable data are available for:

• Bulgaria