Studies of economic impacts of violence against women in the Czech Republic Radan Šafařík Gender Equality Department Office of the Government of the Czech Republic 1 1

Undertaken by the Czech NGO „ProFem“ Study „Economic impacts of domestic violence in the Czech Republic“ (2012) Undertaken by the Czech NGO „ProFem“ The very first study of economic impacts of VaW Methodology: Representative survey Analysis of administrative data Questionnaire among social services providers Expert estimate of impacts of various cases of VaW Sample: 3000 women aged 18-65 Study focused on partnership violence only 2 2

40% of women: experienced some sort of partnership violence Study „Economic impacts of domestic violence in the Czech Republic“ (2012) Main findings: 40% of women: experienced some sort of partnership violence 11% of women: experienced some sort of partnership violence during the last year 58% of women with experience with violence have suffered physical or psychological injury Total costs: 1,33 billion CZK (49 mil EUR) 546 mil CZK (20,2 mil EUR) health costs 314 mil CZK (11,6 mil EUR) justice costs 210 mil CZK (7,78 mil EUR) unemployment benefits costs 190 mil CZK (7 mil EUR) social services costs 32 mil CZK (1,18 mil EUR) police costs Update of health costs in 2016 = 1,85 billion (68,5 mil EUR) 3 3

Study „Economic impacts of domestic violence “ (2017) Undertaken by a private research institution (contracted by the Office of the Czech Government) A follow up study Methodology based on the UK studies (Walby) Prevalence rates used from the FRA study (2013) and a the Charles University study (2015) Focusing on domestic violence on women and men Health impacts calculations based on a methodology used for estimation of costs of traffic accidents 4 4

Study „Economic impacts of domestic violence “ (2017) Main findings: Total costs: 14,5 billion CZK (535 mil EUR) 8,6 billion CZK (317 mil EUR) economic inactivity costs 5,1 billion CZK (187 mil EUR) health costs 487 mil CZK (18 mil EUR) social services costs 70 mil CZK (2,6 mil EUR) justice costs 5 5

2012 study: 97 mil EUR vs. 2015 study: 535 mil EUR   2012 study (2016 update) 2017 study Total costs 97 535 health costs 68,5 187 justice costs 11,6 2,6 social services costs 7 18 police costs 1,18 0,52 6 6

Limits and recommendations Different methodology and different focus = very different results Another piece in the mosaic of the full scale of VaW Useful data on various costs = support for preventive measures Gaps in data-collection at administrative level The important role of health care providers Only a very limited number of cases reported to police (awareness raising) Next steps: training of health personnel better data collection in health care awareness raising campaigns + motivation of public to report VaW investment into preventive measures 7 7