The results of the Survey on Safety in Public and Private Spaces reveal that 20.1% of people aged 18 to 74 have been victims of physical or sexual violence in adulthood. Women are more affected by intimate partner violence, while men are more affected by non-partner violence.

One in ten women with a current or former partner has experienced physical or sexual violence (10.3%) in an intimate context.

The prevalence of reported violence in previous relationships is three times higher than the one reported in current relationships: more than a third of women (36.3%) and around a quarter of men (24.8%) who had previous partners experienced some kind of violence in those relationships.

Outside of an intimate context, physical violence is the most common, particularly among men (17.4%). The proportion of women victims of sexual violence (3.9%) is, however, double that of men.

More than twice as many women (12.3%) as men reported to have been victims of sexual harassment at work.

The prevalence of violence, both inside and outside an intimate context, as well as sexual harassment at work, is higher among the younger age groups.