Summary Improving gender sensitivity of prevalence study domestic violence

In the spring of 2016, we, together with Bureau Dijkstra, conducted research with the aim of providing WODC with substantiated advice on how the issue of gender can be better addressed in the next prevalence study into domestic violence. The aim of this advice is to enable more precise measuring and interpreting of gender differences and similarities in victimhood and perpetratorhood and the context and impact of violence in the next prevalence study.

In formulating the advice, both national and international experts have been consulted. Subsequently, the 2010 study was assessed by means of an assessment framework based on literature research, and secondary analyses on the data of this 2010 prevalence study were conducted.

Small additions to the phase 1 questionnaire in the victim and perpetrator study will contribute to more possibilities of reaching a gender sensitive picture in the analysis. A more radical modification of the questionnaire, however, will make it possible to achieve a better and more gender sensitive measurement of domestic violence; for example by using measurement instruments that include questions about the impact of forms of violence. In-depth studies may also contribute to this.

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The full text of the study is only available in Dutch. However, the summary is also available in English (see below).