UNICEF - Checklist for ensuring the quality of violence against women surveys

Collecting data on violence against women, including intimate partner violence, is a complex undertaking. Strict methodological and ethical protocols need to be followed to ensure data quality, as well as participant and researcher safety and well-being. However, not all surveys follow best practice. This makes national and sub-national data on the prevalence of intimate partner violence difficult to compare across settings. Some surveys are subject to the risk of bias, including the risk of underestimation. This newly-released checklist is designed to help national statistical offices as well as research and data institutions think through the steps needed to produce high-quality survey data on intimate partner violence — from the planning stages through to analysis, report write-up and dissemination of accurately interpreted findings.