National Register of Violence against Women in

Argentina (RUCVM)

October 2016

Global Forum on Gender Statistics Helsinki

Finland, 24-26 October 2016

The National Register of Violence against Women

(RUCVM) was created in the framework of law

26485 for ‘Integral Protection to Women”, it takes

part of the National Action Plan for Prevention,

Assistance and Erradication of Violence against

Women.

It is the result of joint work of INDEC and the

Consejo Nacional de las Mujeres (National Women

Council).

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RUCVM

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Register Objective

Centralize and sistematize the information available in

administrative registers (complaints or assistance requests) for the

design of indicators conceptually and methodologically harmonized,

which will constitute input to public policies design.

Information Supplier Organisms

State organisms from all three political-administrative levels

(National, Provincial and Municipal) in the country that attend and

register violence against woman on gender reasons data.

RUCVM

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Object Population

Women aged 14 years old and over, victims of violence for gender

reasons, whose data have been registered at some state

organism since January 2013.

The victim’s identity protection is assured by Statistic Secret Law

(Law 17622).

RUCVM

RUCVM Structure

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•The identification of the administrative record

• The socialdemographic characteristics of women (victims)

• The socialdemographic characteristics of the offender

RUCVM does not include either femicide or human

trafficking cases.

Variables Identification of the administrative record

• Identification code

• Identification Card Type

• Info Supplier Institution

• Institutional route

• Register Type

• Date of Attention / Complaint

• Date of aggression occurrence

• Schedule aggression

• Presence of minors

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Variables Victim’s information

• Sex

• Gender identity

• Birthdate

• Age

• Residence place

• Educational level

• Employment situation

• Another situation

• Number of offender

• Relationship with offender

• Cohabitation with offender

• Type of violence

• Violence Mode

• Frequency of Violence

• Illtreatment time

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Variables Offender Information

• Sex

• Gender identity

• Age

• Residence place

• Educational level

• Employment situation

• Another situation

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RUCVM´s form

Part 1 - top view

Specify

Select

Time of

the day

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RUCVM Construction

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Processing Scheme at INDEC

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HOMOGENIZATION

INCLUDABLE CASES SET

DATABASE

FINAL

RUCVM

RECEPTION

OK

RECEPTION

OK RECEPTION

OK

RECEPTION

OK

ORG 4

MIRROR BASE

ORG 1 ORG 2 ORG 3

RUCVM DATABASE EXPLOITATION

Y Y Y Y

N N N N

Continuous

Interchange with

Representatives

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RUCVM

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Challenges to RUCVM

Taking into account that counting on reliable information

will allow to design public policies oriented to prevent

and erradicate violence against women, our present

challenges are:

• To add all the organisms and victim attention centres as suppliers to RUCVM

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• To raise awareness among data producers about the importance of completing collected information

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• To produce continuous statistical information maintaining expected quality standards

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• To widen the set of variables required such as ethnic condition, migration condition, presence of minors, victim’s disability, among others.

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Thank you!