From left to right, Juan José López and María Jesús Cantos (Ministry of Home Affairs), the rector of the University of Barcelona, Joan Guàrdia, and Antonio Andrés Pueyo.
From left to right , Juan José López and María Jesús Cantos (Ministry of Home Affairs), the rector of the University of Barcelona, Joan Guàrdia, and Antonio Andrés Pueyo. UB researchers have written, required by the Spanish Ministry of Home Affairs, a report on sexual violence in Spain which gathers and analyses the existing data in order to provide a global view of the phenomenon. The authors of the study used official figures, such as the number of reports and sentences, and several published surveys and researches on this issue, among other sources. In the report, it is estimated that in Spain there are about 400,000 incidents of sexual violence in a year, 100,000 of them being minors. Between the 85% and 95% of the adult victims are women. The authors of the study, members of the Group of Advanced Studies on Violence ( GEAV ) of the UB, made these estimations considering the data in the field of sexual abuse represent only a part of the total and that there is a high number of "hidden data", a phenomenon that can be described with the iceberg metaphor: you can only see a small part of the reality. With the available data, and applying data combination methods, the figures of the hidden data were estimated, and with these, the incidence of the sexual violence cases per year in all their types and varieties.
