5.2.1 designate or establish one or more official bodies
responsible for the co-ordination of data collection and for the
co-ordination, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of policies and
measures to prevent and combat all forms of violence covered by
the Istanbul Convention;
5.2.2 collect data on all the forms of violence covered by the
Istanbul Convention;
5.2.3 collect data on the causes of violence against women,
on its consequences, on its prevalence and frequency and on the
efficiency of policies and legislation;
5.2.4 analyse the causes of under-reporting of violence against
women;
5.2.5 ensure that data is disaggregated, as a minimum requirement,
by sex, age, type of violence and relationship of the perpetrator
to the victim, geographical location and other factors deemed relevant,
having regard to relevant data protection and anti-discrimination
legislation;
5.2.6 ensure that data collection is part of all national plans
aimed at combating violence against women and allocate sufficient
funding to this end;
5.2.7 require every national police, judicial, health or social
authority to collect data and draw up standardised forms for data
collection by these authorities to allow comparability among similar
institutions, and encourage electronic data collecting and processing;
5.2.8 provide specific training to all professionals on basic
rules of data collection;
5.2.9 conduct, at regular intervals, population-based surveys
on violence against women, with the same set of questions, in order
to allow monitoring and comparison over time;
5.2.10 publish statistics on the number of cases of violence
against women and other relevant data and organise public debates
to raise awareness among the general public and to promote support
and prevention services;