Table 2.

Characteristics of the study sample (N = 42 002) from the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights 2012 survey on violence against women by categories of Gender Equality Index (GEI) and life time experience of physical and sexual violence

	Column %			Row %
	Low GEIa	Middle GEIb	High GEIc	Physical violence	Sexual violence
Number of countries (individuals)	15 (22.865)	8 (11.552)	5 (7.585)
Life time experience of IPVAW
Physical	16.8	14.2	19.6	–	29.6
Sexual	5.6	5.2	7.2	84.6	–
Age
18–24 years	9.5	8.5	8.3	11.8	4.0
25–29 years	7.5	7.0	7.0	13.8	5.0
30–34 years	8.6	8.9	7.1	16.5	5.9
35–39 years	9.7	9.8	7.9	18.0	6.3
40–49 years	18.4	21.6	20.8	19.5	6.5
50–59 years	19.7	18.9	21.5	18.3	6.7
60 years or above	26.5	25.3	27.3	14.9	5.1
Marital status
Married/partnership	61.8	61.5	54.7	12.6	4.2
Not married/partnership	38.2	38.5	45.3	23.1	8.4
Educational achievement
Primary education	29.1	34.8	15.6	17.9	6.5
Secondary education	51.9	44.8	51.7	17.0	6.0
University education	18.9	20.1	32.5	13.9	4.4
Immigrant background
Both parents born in the country	89.1	80.3	84.8	16.1	5.6
One parent born in the country	4.2	4.8	5.2	20.6	7.4
Both parents born in another country	6.2	14.0	8.0	18.5	6.6
Type of residential area
Big city or suburb	35.9	30.6	36.7	17.3	6.1
Town or small city	34.0	37.1	36.9	17.0	5.8
Rural area or country village	29.8	31.8	26.4	15.5	5.5
Physical abuse in childhood
Yes	24.6	26.2	30.4	25.1	9.5
No	75.4	73.8	69.6	13.5	4.5
Sexual abuse in childhood
Yes	5.2	12.2	15.3	29.1	12.8
No	94.8	87.8	84.7	15.4	5.1

Note: Values are percentages.

^aBulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia.

^bAustria, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxemburg, Slovenia, Spain, UK.

^cBelgium, Denmark, Finland, Netherlands, Sweden.