- guardian.co.uk, Thursday November 27 2003 17.33 GMT
* Up to one woman in four is affected by domestic violence at some stage in their life.
* More than 500,000 women are affected each year.
* Domestic violence results in the murder of more than a hundred women each year.
* Violence within same sex relationships and from women to men is not unheard of, but the vast majority of domestic violence (estimated at over 80%) is perpetrated by men on women.
* The police receive an estimated 360,000 999 phone calls each year connected with domestic violence by men against women.
* Domestic violence occurs across all ages, ethnic groups and social classes.
* 54,000 women and children are given protection in refuges each year.
* Despite the number of incidents reported, according to the latest figures prosecutions undertaken by the Crown Prosecution Service only numbered 13,000.
* This number represents only about 15% of the estimated arrests in suspected cases of domestic violence.
* Disabled women are twice as likely to suffer domestic violence and more likely to endure abuse.
