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3. The Survey on Violence against Women 2015
The Survey on Violence against Women 2015 is the most relevant
statistical operation produced in Spain on violence against women. It has been
conducted every four years since 1999. Since 2011, the Government
Delegation for Gender Based Violence manages it. It achieves the quality
requirements introduced by the UN Statistics Committee (UN, 2014).
The questionnaire has been improved to better assess the violence
suffered by women from their current or former partners, and a new battery
of questions has been introduced in order to have, for the first time in Spain,
data on the prevalence of non-partner physical and sexual violence against
women. The reasons for the introduction of this battery were, on one hand,
the recommendations of international organizations such as the United
Nations, requesting the Member States to facilitate these data before the end
of 2015, and, on the other hand, the need to comply with the provisions of the
National Strategy for the Eradication of Violence against Women 2013-2016
in terms of raising the visibility of other forms of violence against women in
addition to intimate partner violence.
The Survey on Violence against Women 2015 was conducted in
partnership with the Center for Sociological Research to a sample of 10,171
women aged 16 or above, representative of the female population residing in
Spain. The sample increased in more than 2,000 women with respect to the
2011 survey and women aged 16 and above have been interviewed, face to
face, instead of just women over 18 as was done in previous surveys.
Following the international recommendations, 5 sets of questions were
developed for the 5 different types of intimate partner violence, as shown in
Table 1:

Table 1: Items included in the questionnaire to detect the different types of IPV.
Violence Your partner*...
Physical violence 1- has ever slapped you or thrown something at you that could hurt you
2- has ever pushed you or shoved you or pulled your hair
3- has ever hit you with a fist or with anything else that could hurt you
4- has ever kicked you, dragged you or beat you up
5- has ever tried to choke or burn you on purpose
6- has ever threatened to use or has actually used a gun, knife or other weapon
against you
Sexual 1- has ever forced you to have sexual intercourses** when you did not want to
violence 2- did you ever have sexual intercourses you did not want to because you were
afraid of what your partner could do if you refused
3- has ever forced you to do something else sexual that you did not want or
that you found degrading or humiliating
4- has ever attempted to force you into sexual intercourse by holding you
down or hurting you in some way

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