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6.1.4 PGV - Percentage of gender violence

Last modified by Emily West on 2022/02/10 09:57

6.1.4 PGV - Percentage of gender violence

TopicUrban challengesSub-challenges
Social6 - People Security6.1 Control of Crime
Description
This indicator measures the percentage of women between 15 and 49 years who have ever had a relationship and have suffered physical violence from their actual couple or their previous one during the last 12 months.
Scale as linked to D2.2 framework
  • City
  • Neighborhood 
  • Street
  • Household
  • Object
Data source [ link to data framework]
  • Police data, Institutes of statistics data or by doing surveys.
Needs
  • Police data, Institutes of statistics data or by doing surveys.
Expected Outputs
  • Percentage
Calculation methods
  • Number of women who have suffered violence in the last 12 months / Percentage of women who have ever had a relationship 
Links and references
  • Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. https://www.cdc.gov/
  • World Health Organization. http://www.who.int/en/
  • UN organization dedicated to gender equality and the empowerment of women http://www.unwomen.org/en
  • Indicators of the Sustainable and Emergent Cities Initiative of the Inter-American Bank of Development. https://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/8132/ Guia-Metodologica-Programa-de-Ciudades-Emergentes-y-Sostenibles-Tercera-edicion-Anexo-de-indicadores.pdf?sequence=