1. Gender Based Violence – progress report Item 7 of the draft agenda
DSS Meeting 2 and 3 March 2017

2. Background
"Istanbul Convention" on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (all acts - or threats of - resulting in physical, sexual, psychological or economic harm – public & private life)
"Disaggregated relevant statistical data" / "population-based surveys " at regular intervals
Repeated calls of Council and EP
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3. Setting up a Task Force
Working Group on Statistics on Crime and Criminal Justice 10/03/2016: creation of a Task Force
Develop a survey on the prevalence of gender-based violence (GBV) in the ESS; no regulation but financing
Members: DE, ES, FR, IT, LV, HU, NL, AT, PT, SE, FRA, EIGE, HEUNI, experts, DG JUST
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4. Terms of References of the TF
Review existing experiences and good practices of surveys on GBV and Violence against Women (VaW)
Identify core methodological requirements
Agree on a draft GBV questionnaire for pre-testing and piloting in MS
Develop final survey and guidelines
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5. First meeting of the TF 15-16 February 2017
Support ISTAT (grant with Eurostat)
Discussed:
Existing experiences, key issues
Indicators to measure GBV / VAW
Scope of the survey
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6. First meeting TF: outcomes
Stand-alone survey (not a survey module)
Focus on main data needs, reasonable length
If possible, both women and men
18+
Face-to-face recommended
Develop a questionnaire
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7. Way forward (1)
WG Crime Statistics March 2017; next TF meeting June 2017, discussion first draft questionnaire
Further TF meetings at all steps
Pretesting final draft questionnaire in MS in Autumn 2017
Pilot testing revised questionnaire in MS in 2018
Financed by grants +/- 4 million EUR
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8. Way forward (2)
Final questionnaire and guidelines adopted by WG Crime Statistics March 2019
Implementation in MS from second half of 2019 / beginning of 2020
Financing planned
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9. DSS is invited to …
take note of the work ongoing with the TF on the development of the GBV survey
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