In 2006, the Delegate Minister for the Family and the Status of Women commissioned a National Survey on Violence Against Women, based on interviews with a sample of 2,043 women aged 19‑64 years. The survey found that:

• Women are most likely to be subjected to violence within the family and it revealed significant prevalence rates.
• One in 10 women living with their husband or partner reported to be subjected “often” or “daily” to physical violence such as beatings, locking in or ejecting into the street during the last 12 months prior to the survey.
• One in three women (31.4 per cent) reported to have been regularly subjected to threats of physical or emotional violence in the same period.
• 10.9 per cent of women with a husband or cohabitant partner had been subject to forced sexual relations on more than one occasion.
• Women who are divorced, widowed or separated from their husbands are particularly likely to become victims of violence at the hands of both in laws and blood relations. Deprived of the husband's support in the family structure, these women often find themselves in a particularly precarious situation.
• Women with less education or poor women were more likely to suffer violence and thereby underscored the fact that women's educational and socio economic empowerment must form an integral part of any strategy to combat violence against women.
• 7 per cent of all women have been sexually harassed in an educational or training institution and 1.9 per cent have even suffered sexual violence;
• 1.6 per cent of women reported sexual harassment at work and another 1 per cent was subjected to sexual violence.