Description: Proportion of persons victim of physical or sexual harassment by sex/age/disability status and place of occurrence in the previous 12 months
Sub descriptionUnit2020202120222023
Total Reported CasesCount139115112144
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DATA IDENTIFICATION


Name
Proportion of persons victim of physical or sexual harassment, by sex, age, disability status and place of occurrence, in the previous 12 months
Indicator purpose

This is a survey-based indicator that measures the experience of any of a set of behaviors that are collectively referred to as physical harassment and sexual harassment.

Abstract

The number of persons who have been victims of physical harassment and/or sexual harassment, as a percentage of the total population of the relevant area.

Data source

Belize Police Department

DATA CHARACTERISTICS



Contact organization person

Belize Police Department

Date last updated
02-APR-2020
Periodicity

Annual 

Unit of measure

Percentage (%)

Other characteristics
  • The Indicator is based on eight questions to be included in a household survey. These questions can be part of an add-on module on physical and sexual harassment, to be incorporated into other ongoing general population surveys (such as surveys on quality of life, public attitudes or surveys on other topics) or be part of dedicated surveys on crime victimization.
  • Data should be collected as part of a nationally representative probability sample of the adult population residing in the country, irrespective of legal residence status. The sampling frame and sample design should ensure that results can be disaggregated at the sub-national level. The sample size should be sufficiently large to capture relevant events and compute needed disaggregations.
DATA CONCEPTS and CLASSIFICATIONS



Classification used
  • Sexual harassment refers to behavior with a sexual connotation that is suitable to intimidate their victims.
  • Physical harassment refers to all other harassing behaviors that can cause fear for physical integrity and/or emotional distress.
 
Disaggregation

is by perpetrator and by place of occurrence. 

Key statistical concepts

The number of persons who experienced a form of physical harassment and/or sexual harassment, divided by the total population. The result would be multiplied by 100.

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OTHER ASPECTS



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Limitations
  • The indicator reflects the experience from the perspective of the victim. As such, the response provided by the victims reflects their experience as well as their subjective feeling of victimization, irrespective of whether actual harm was intended or not.
  • Like other survey-based indicators, the scope of the indicator also relies on the design and sampling strategy of the survey. For example, most surveys set a low age-limit for practical and ethical reasons (e.g. 18 years and older), which means that data are representative for youth under 18 years.[1]
  • Harassment specifically linked to disability requires relatively large sample sizes in order to obtain a sufficiently large number of disabled persons in the sample. The same behavior can have different meanings and therefore have a different impact across cultural contexts and population groups. For this reason, the selection of ‘harassment’ behaviors has been made also with the view of identifying situations of harassment that can be perceived as such across different social and cultural contexts.
 

[1] Other age limits (e.g. 15+ years) may be applied if consistent with national practices. Some surveys are also specifically designed to cover the youth and adolescent population, for example, the Social Cohesion Survey to Prevent Violence and Crime (ECOPRED) conducted by the National Statistics Office of Mexico (INEGI) targets youth 12 years and older.

Other comments

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