1. Gender Based Violence State of Play Item 5 of the draft agenda
DSS Meeting 1 and 2 March 2018

2. Background
DSS informed on the development of a EU survey on Gender Based Violence (GBV) at its last 3 meetings
Working Group Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics set up a TF in 2016, currently: DE, EE, ES, FR, HR, IT, LV, LU, HU, NL, PT, SI
Grant action with ISTAT to support the work
First meetings of the TF in 02/2017 and 06/ written consultations: 1st draft questionnaire ready in September 2017
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3. Contents of the 1st draft questionnaire
Background questions on respondent, current partner and former violent partner (if any)
Sexual harassment at work
Non-partner violence (details on last incident)
Former partner violence (details on last incident)
Stalking
Violence in childhood
Knowledge of support services
Opinion on GBV in the country
Health questions
Short additional module on victimisation
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4. Grants action – testing & piloting
Test in two steps:
Translating and pre-testing the draft questionnaire until end 2017
Pilot testing the revised draft questionnaire (after pre-testing) until end January 2019
Qualitative comparisons and assessing impacts of methodologies
11 countries: BG, EE, ES, HR, IS, LT, LV, MT, NL, PL, SI of which 8 pre-testing, all piloting, 4 on methodological aspects
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5. Outcomes of pre-testing
Translation, focus groups, cognitive testing
Good acceptation, considered sensitive but possible (“necessary”) to answer
No difference women-men in answering
Main issue: questionnaire too long (but “by purpose” to assess what shall be selected)
Difficulties with some questions
Small test survey in NL with 200 persons, around 65% response rate (after reminder)
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6. Way forward
Analysis of outcomes with ISTAT and discussion at next TF meeting 7-8/03/ > revised questionnaire for piloting
TF meeting 15-16/05/2018 to discuss methodological aspects for piloting (e.g., sampling, interviewing modes, interviewers training and security)
Questionnaire and methodological material provided in May-June + online forum, for pilot surveys ending 31/01/2019
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7. Way forward
Outcomes of piloting and, based on them, final questionnaire and guidelines discussed by the TF in spring 2019
Final methodology and questionnaire presented at WG Crime and criminal justice in 2019
Implementation from 2020 (funding intended)
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8. Call for proposals in 2018
Around 1 million euros used for the grants on a budget available of 4.4 million
After discussion at last DSS meeting and with DG JUST it was decided to use 1 million euros provided by the European Parliament for a second call for piloting and methodological analyses
Launched in January 2018 with deadline for application 20 March, information of the ESSC at its February meeting
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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
To apply for grants (NISs or ONAs) under the new January 2018 call for proposals
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