Source: European Parliament
In accordance with Article 44 of Directive 2024/1385[1], Member States are required to disaggregate data by sex, age group of the victim and the offender (child/adult), type of offence and the relationship between the victim and the offender.
As a minimum, Member States are required to collect statistics on annual numbers of reported offences and convictions of violence against women and/or domestic violence; the number of victims who have been killed; the number and capacity of shelters per Member State, as well as the number of calls to national helplines.
The European Institute for Gender Equality will continue supporting Member States, including by establishing common standards for the collection of administrative data.
The Commission is assisting Member States in the correct implementation of the directive and its provisions, including the aforementioned data collection requirement.
Directive 2024/1385 also requires Member States — in line with the Istanbul Convention — to endeavour to conduct population-based surveys at regular intervals to assess the prevalence of and trends in all forms of violence covered by the directive. In 2020, Eurostat developed a common questionnaire and methodology for the EU gender-based violence survey.
The indicators, as well as the aggregated results of this survey with data for all Member States and the EU average are publicly available on the Eurostat website.[2]
The Commission relies on the Member States to cooperate with Eurostat to produce regular, high quality and comparable data on gender-based violence in the future, as well as use this methodological manual developed by Eurostat to conduct their own population-based surveys.