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Violence Your partner*...
Psychological 1- tried to keep you from seeing your friends
violence: 2- tried to restrict contact with your family of birth
controlling 3- insisted on knowing where you are at all times
behaviours*** 4- ignored you and treated you indifferently
5- got angry if you spoke with another man or woman
6- unjustifiably suspected that you were unfaithful
7- expected you to ask for permission before going by yourself to some places,
for example a hospital or health center, a cultural or sports center, etc.
Psychological 1- has ever insulted you or made you feel bad about yourself
violence: 2- has ever belittled or humiliated you in front of other people
emotional 3- has ever done things to scare or intimidate you on purpose (e.g. by yelling
abuse and smashing things, looking at you in a certain manner)
4- has ever verbally threatened to hurt you
5- has ever verbally threatened to hurt someone you care about
Economic 1- refused to give you enough money for household expenses, even when your
violence*** partner had money for other things
2- prevented you from making decisions about family finances and from
shopping independently
3- forbid you to go to work or study outside the household
Fear How often have you been or are you afraid of your (current/last/former)
partner?
* Different questions were done to differentiate current/last/former parents.
** Sexual intercourse is defined as oral sex, forced anal or vaginal penetration.
*** For controlling behaviours and economic violence, frequency was not measured. The questions
refer to
the general behaviour of the respondent’s partner. This is because these behaviours refer to
characteristics of
Source: Government Delegation for Gender-Based Violence (2015).
the relationship and are often an ongoing pattern (course of conduct) rather than specific acts.
In the Survey on Violence against Women 2015 information was collected
about all partners a woman has had throughout her life while previous surveys
only asked about the partners she has had in the last 10 years, thus resulting
in a great increase of the percentage of ever partnered women with respect
to the previous surveys. Therefore, the prevalence of lifetime intimate partner
violence is more precisely measured.

4. Results
4.1. The Spanish Population
In Spain, there were 46,440,099 inhabitants in 2016. Their distribution,
according to gender and age, is shown in Table 2:

Table 2: Population in Spain. 1 of January 2016.
st
Age Group Males Females Total
0-13 3,387,554 3,185,739 6,573,293
14-15 465,293 438,346 903,639
16-64 15,203,861 15,065,141 30,269,001
65 and over 3,750,757 4,943,411 8,694,164
Total 22,807,464 23,632,635 46,440,099
Source: Mañas-Alcón et al. (2019).

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