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Outcomes and reports
Research reports
The AVOW European Research Report is now published: according to the results 28 % of older women in Europe have experienced violence or abuse in the last 12 months; emotional abuse being the most common form of abuse.
AVOW European Research Report (pdf 480 kb)
AVOW brochure in English (pdf 447 kb)
National reports
Please contact other partners directly for national results.
Key summaries in local languages
- Dutch (pdf 390 kb)
- Finnish (pdf 450 kb)
- German (pdf 490 kb)
- Lithuanian (pdf 460 kb)
- Portuguese (pdf 470 kb)
Literature reviews
Literature reviews looked into what kind of information is available in Europe on the prevalence of violence and abuse against older women. Although the reviews covered all EU countries (including Norway and Israel) the focus of the work was on the 5 partner countries Finland, Austria, Belgium, Lithuania and Portugal.
Complete literature reviews and short overviews from each partner
AVOW questionnaire
To measure prevalence and to get information on patterns of violence and perpetrators the project has developed a culturally validated questionnaire; a research tool which will be used in all partner countries. Questionnaire will be used in all AVOW surveys done during spring and summer 2010.
More about the AVOW questionnaire