Statistics on child abuse II Phase

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Statistics on child abuseII Phase

• Draft
• Florence, January 2006

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• The second phase of the survey on the topic of
  child abuse had four basic intentions
• to verify the status of the statistics on child
  abuse indicated in the first phase of survey by
  each country
• to identify a minimum set of common data, which
  could be proposed as basic components for
  comparable indicators on the state of children
  and adolescents related to the problem of child
  abuse
• to update and enlarge the knowledge on the
  juridical framework standing behind public
  policies against child abuse
• to prepare an overview on the legal approach to
  the problem both from a substantial and
  procedural point of view.

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• In order to reach these aims all the
  ChildONEurope Members and Associated Members were
  invited to provide
• statistics on the phenomenon of child abuse, it
  was chosen the year 2002 as year base
• information related to laws and legal provisions
  into force at the national level addressing all
  the various forms of child abuse.

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First analysis of the results regarding
quantitative information

• All Members and Observers were asked to send the
  available statistics (at a national or regional
  level) on the below mentioned kinds of child
  abuse
• sexual abuse (intra-familial and extra-familial)
• sexual commercial exploitation (child
  pornography, child pornography on web,
  prostitution)
• neglect (emotional and physical)
• physical ill-treatment
• psychological ill-treatment
• witnessing violence
• trafficking for sexual exploitation

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The following countries sent questionnaires or
other documents
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Available statistics for type of child abuse
(Number of countries)
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Number of countries
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Elements of data available (Number of countries)
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Proportion of each form of child abuse on total
children reported
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Final comments

• The serious insufficiency of statistics collected
  can not be explained with the fact that the
  phenomenon will be never known in all its
  magnitude.
• Child abuse is a social problem that has two
  main characteristics generally considered
  necessary for counting a phenomenon in the
  official statistics
• A general interest towards the phenomenon
• The significance to make data available for the
  community

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• There is a more widespread awareness on the
  necessity of transparency and comprehensibility
  in the production of data that are not the
  occasional result of survey or ad hoc research.
  But for satisfying those requisites , the
  statistical activity must be conformed to a
  series of basic principles
• the data must meet the needs of professionals,
  public decision makers, researchers and citizens
• the access to data must be as more easy and wide
  as possible in respect of right to privacy
• there should be a strong integration and
  harmonization among all the homogeneous sources
  of data in order to capture all the possible
  data flows
• timeliness and reliability
• the local unit that generates data must follow
  rigorous methodological criteria and clear tools
  of recording
• the statistics should be supported by information
  on the methodologies and concepts adopted

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The data of child abuse are the result of
activities which do not have statistical scopes.
They derive as output of administrative
activities in social, health and judicial
sectors.

• To build a statistical system from an archive of
  information, it is necessary to go trough
  various phases logically and temporarily
  connected
• To formulate the objectives that must be met with
  the production and analysis of statistical data
• To choose the relevant aspects of phenomenon
• To elaborate a scheme for recording aggregated
  information
• To collect data
• To control and correct mistakes
• To codify information
• To elaborate data
• To analysis the measures obtained

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• An administrative archive is able to generate
  statistics if the original information is
  collected and registered according to a specific
  set of
• instruments,
• procedures,
• classifications
• organization rules,
• protocols of recording
• standardised informatics platforms for
  archiving information.

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• The ChildONEurope survey faces a significant
  challenge. There are few, but good experiences
  that satisfy almost all the criteria, principles
  and phases in order to realise an information
  system, and then a statistical one.
• They could be compared and integrated in order to
  define a minimum common set of definitions for
  the different forms of child abuse and for the
  information to be collected for understanding
  better the phenomenon and to picture the
  activities of protection services.