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Title: Statistics on Violence against Women


1
Statistics on Violence against Women
  • Review of Module on Crime and Victimisation in
    general household survey in Ireland
  • Topic 2, Session 5

2
Overview of presentation
  • Main focus Crime and victimisation module
  • Brief review of international recommendations for
    conducting surveys on violence against women
  • Usefulness of general household survey module for
    collecting more specific statistics on violence
    against women

3
QNHS
  • The Quarterly National Household Survey (QNHS) is
    conducted by the Central Statistics Office.
  • The survey began in September 1997, replacing the
    annual Labour Force Survey
  • Its main purpose is to produce quarterly labour
    force estimates

4
QNHS Background
  • Nation-wide continuous survey of households
  • Participation is voluntary - response rate of 93
  • Demand for more social statistics drove
    introduction of a quarterly labour force survey
    with social modules

5
QNHS Survey Details
  • Data collected using Computer Assisted Personal
    Interviewing (CAPI)
  • Over 30,000 households per quarter
  • Household interviewed for 5 consecutive quarters
    (i.e. 5 waves)
  • QNHS also used for social modules

6
QNHS social modules 1998-2004
7
Crime victimisation module (CV)
  • Undertaken in Q4 1998 repeated in Q4 2003
  • Crimes against households
  • Crimes against individuals (aged 18 or over)
  • Theft with violence
  • Theft without violence
  • Physical assault
  • If a crime occurred more than once during the
    previous 12 months (e.g. burglary) only the most
    recent occurrence was recorded

8
Crime victimisation module
  • Response rate to CV module was 79 (persons)
  • No proxy interviews conducted for module
  • Sexual assault or domestic violence was not
    covered by the survey - too sensitive and
    protecting response rate to main employment
    survey has top priority
  • Module was not focussed on violence against women

9
Level of personal crime
10
Table 1 Principal economic status of population
and victims
11
Table 2 Likely victims
12
Table 3 Victims classified by age group and sex
of victim
13
Table 4 Victims classified by location of
incident and sex of victim
14
Table 5 Victims classified by type of crime and
sex of victim
15
Table 6 Victims classified by whether crime was
reported and sex of victim
16
Table 7 All persons classified by perceptions of
safety and sex of person
17
Module review
  • Module worked well in the field
  • Other household members may be present during
    survey interview
  • 25,000 households included in the module
    responses
  • No comparable data available from other surveys
    or from police statistics

18
International context
  • Emerging volume of statistical output
  • International crime victimisation survey
  • Statistics Canada 1993 violence against women
    survey
  • International violence against women survey
  • - 9 EU countries involved
  • ISTAT violence against women survey

19
World Health Organisation
  • WHO World Report on Violence and Health
  • WHO research recommendations
  • Study must include actions aimed at reducing any
    stress caused to victims
  • Refer women requesting assistance to support
    services
  • Use in multi-purpose surveys only when WHO
    recommendations can be met
  • Safety of interviewer and interviewee an issue

20
Statistics Canada
  • Conducted a Violence Against Women Survey in 1993
  • Survey conducted by telephone interview
  • Focus on crime may limit reporting of assaults
    within relationships and sexual harassment
  • Let interviewees decide time/date of interview

21
International Violence Against Women Survey
(IVAWS)
  • Conducted by UN European Institute for Crime
    Prevention and Control
  • Focus on violence against women by men
  • Builds on International Crime Victimisation
    Survey
  • 22 participating countries (including 9 from EU)
  • Specialised training for interviewers
  • Interviewers are female
  • Telephone and face-to-face interviews

22
Conclusions from ISTAT survey
  • Victimisation surveys dont adequately capture
    statistics on violence perpetrated by someone
    close to the victim
  • Financial, psychological, physical and sexual
    violence
  • Qualitative and quantitative approach
  • Care and flexibility required in setting-up and
    conducting the interview
  • Interview is stressful
  • Requires interviewers trained in the topic

23
Conclusions and Recommendations
  • More focussed survey on violence would need to
    include domestic violence and sexual harassment
  • National Statistical Institutes have limited
    experience of crime statistics but CV surveys a
    soft introduction
  • CV surveys could be used to raise policy, NSI
    and user awareness of need for victim surveys
  • NSIs have survey and data handling integrity and
    confidence of public
  • Involvement and advice of experts outside NSIs is
    necessary

24
Conclusions ctd.
  • Key step is for NSIs to become more involved in
    compilation and dissemination of crime statistics
  • Recent decision in Ireland by Minister for
    Justice that the CSO would assume full
    responsibility for the compilation and
    publication of crime statistics
  • A new CSO Crime Statistics Unit has been set-up
  • Initial focus will be on crimes reported to the
    police
  • Review and development of victimisation surveys
    is also within the remit of the Unit
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