Draft outline for the Guidelines for Producing Statistics on Violence against Women

1. Draft outline for the Guidelines for Producing Statistics on Violence against Women Social and Housing Statistics Section United Nations Statistics Division

2. Introduction • Importance of assessing the phenomenon • Need for international statistical standards • Sources of statistics

3. Chapter I: Role of the Survey • Part of the national statistical system • Accurate and reliable data • Providing critical benchmarks for research

4. Chapter II: Definition and essential features • Major source of statistics • Surveys – less costly • More flexible • Importance of sample design • Confidentiality • Safety of respondents

5. Chapter III: Planning and organizing • Following statistical standards • Legal basis • Funding • User consultations • Survey design • Sample design • Design of the questionnaire • Sequence of questions • Mode of data collection

6. Chapter III: Planning and organizing (continued) • Pre-testing • Time needed • Manuals • Selection and training of interviewers • Interviewers’ training • Protection and safety of respondents • Confidentiality • Quality control – data collection • Data entry • Data processing • Analysis – sampling and non-sampling error

7. Chapter IV: Unit of enumeration, definitions • United of enumeration • Core topics • Additional topics

8. Core topics • For women – victims of violence • Age • Marital status • Educational attainment • Activity status • For violence • Type of violence (core indicators) • For perpetrator • Relationship to the victim

9. Statistical indicators – physical violence • Total and age specific rate of women subjected to physical violence in the last 12 months by severity of violence, relationship to the perpetrator and frequency • Total and age specific rate of women subjected to physical violence during lifetime by severity of violence, relationship to the perpetrator and frequency

10. Statistical indicators – sexual violence • Total and age specific rate of women subjected to sexual violence in the last 12 months by severity of violence, relationship to the perpetrator and frequency • Total and age specific rate of women subjected to sexual violence during lifetime by severity of violence, relationship to the perpetrator and frequency

11. Statistical indicators – intimate partner violence • Total and age specific rate of ever-partnered women subjected to sexual and/or physical violence by current or former intimate partner in the last 12 months by frequency • Total and age specific rate of ever-partnered women subjected to sexual and/or physical violence by current or former intimate partner during lifetime by frequency

12. Statistical indicators – intimate partner violence (continued) • Total and age specific rate of women subjected to psychological violence in the past 12 months by the intimate partner • Total and age specific rate of women subjected to economic violence in the past 12 months by the intimate partner

13. Additional topics • For women – victims of violence • Ethnicity • Religion • Language • Literacy • Age at first marriage or co-habitation • Income • Childhood experience with sexual violence • Substance abuse

14. Additional topics • For violence • Stalking • Forced marriage • For perpetrator • Age • Substance abuse • Activity status • Educational attainment

15. Annex I: Tabulations • Annex II: Topics and framing of the questions • Annex III: Questionnaires