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Please supply the figures for domestic abuse, forced marriages and HBV against women and girls from the south Asian community within the UK as well as global figures.
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Thank you for your enquiry.
Prevalence of domestic abuse victim characteristics, which includes ethnicity, are produced annually. The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) is the best measure for the prevalence of domestic abuse, the latest estimate for the Asian or Asian British ethnicity can be found in the Year ending March 2020 edition of the Domestic abuse prevalence and victim characteristics dataset. Please see Table 6: Prevalence of domestic abuse in the last year among adults aged 16 to 74, by personal characteristics and sex, year ending March 2020 CSEW.
More recent data from police recorded crime is available for the year ending March 2021, this data may be influenced by changes in recording practices and police activity, or by changes in the way victims report to the police and should be treated with caution. Data for Asian (Indian sub-continent) ethnicity can be found in the year ending March 2021 edition of the Domestic abuse prevalence and victim characteristics dataset. Please see Table 17d: Domestic and other homicides of adults aged 16 and over, by sex and ethnicity of victim.
Unfortunately, we do not hold information on forced marriage or honour-based violence, but we have recently collated a range of information and datasets on these topics from across cross government, academia, and the voluntary sector on a data landscape. This information can be found on the UK data tab of the dataset: Violence against women and girls: Data landscape.