1. FRA survey data collection
Vida Beresneviciute
Statistics & Surveys Sector
Freedoms & Justice department, FRA
Working Group Meeting for Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice
EUROSTAT
19-20 March 2018, Luxembourg

2. FRA’s mandate (Council Regulation (EC) 168/2007)
to provide assistance and expertise on fundamental rights issues to the European Union institutions and the Member States, when they implement European Union law
to collect, record, analyse and disseminate relevant, objective, reliable and comparable information and data on fundamental rights issues in the EU
to promote dialogue with civil society, in order to raise public awareness of fundamental rights and actively disseminate information about its work

3. FRA’s surveys EU-MIDIS II (2015–2016) – EU-28
25,500 ethnic minorities & immigrants (including Roma) – random sample
Fundamental Rights survey (2017–2019) – EU-28 + FYROM
general population
Pre-test and feasibility study (2016); Pilot ( )
Second Survey on Discrimination and Hate Crime against Jewish people (2018) online (opt-in) – 13 EU MS
Roma and Travellers Data Collection (2018–2019) – 6 EU MS
LGBTI survey (2018–2019) – EU-28 + FYROM
Antisemitism survey: AT, BE, DE, DK, FR, ES, IT, HU, LV, NL, PL, SE, UK
Roma and Travellers survey 2018 (ongoing) – 6 MS: BE, FR, IE, NL, SE and UK.

4. Data collection timeline
Second Survey on Discrimination and Hate Crime against Jewish people
Fundamental rights survey
2017
2017
2nd quarter
2nd quarter
3rd quarter
4th quarter
1st quarter
3rd quarter
Today
2018
2019
Roma and Travellers survey
LGBTI survey
JEDIS launch – early May, the online collection for 8 consecutive weeks

5. What do the surveys ask?
Feelings of safety and security (personal, family and friends)
Experiences of physical violence and harassment
Reporting of the incidents
Awareness of rights and support mechanisms
Surveys cover perceptions and experiences
Experiences of physical violence and harassment: personal, family/children, close friends -- asking about awareness of others being a victim
Incidents motivated by hatred – in EU-MIDIS II – experiences perceived by respondents as being connected to their ‘ethnic or immigrant background’, in case of the Second Survey on Discrimination and Hate Crime against Jewish people: ‘because of being Jewish’
Cyber crime – online experiences, e.g. offensive, personal comments on the internet; offensive s or text messages
Frequency of violence / harassment motivated by hatred
Respondents who experienced harassment motivated by hatred are asked about the perpetrator(s)’ characteristics (whether the perpetrator was someone from work, a police officer or a border guard, or somebody who they clearly identified as a member of a right-wing extremist/racist group); number of perpetrators. These results can help identify the context in which hate-motivated harassment most commonly occurs, which in turn can support developing more targeted policy responses on combating harassment, encouraging reporting and assisting victims.
Reporting – LAST or MOST SERIOUS; reasons for non-reporting. EU-MIDIS II asked also about level of satisfaction when dealing with the complaint.

6. Thank you