Classification Detail
International Classification of Violence against Children, ICVAC
Basic Bibliographic Information
Status:
Operational
Type:
To Be Determined
Citation:
United Nations Children’s Fund, International Classification of Violence against Children, UNICEF, New York, 2023.
ISBN:
N/A
Website:
Custodian:
United Nations Children's Fund
Available Formats:
PDF, Excel under development.
Year Adopted:
2023
Year Published:
2023
Available Languages (besides English):
Français, Español, العربية, Pусский Details...
Français
Classification internationale de la violence contre les enfants (CIVE)
Citation:
Fonds des Nations Unies pour l’enfance, Classification internationale de la violence contre les enfants. UNICEF, New York, 2023.
Español
Clasificación Internacional de la Violencia contra los Niños (CIVN)
Citation:
Fondo de las Naciones Unidas para la Infancia, Clasificación Internacional de la Violencia contra los Niños, UNICEF, Nueva York, 2023.
العربية
التصنيف الدولي للعنف ضد الأطفال, التصنيف الدولي للعنف ضد الأطفال
Citation:
منظمة الأمم المتحدة للطفولة، التصنيف الدولي للعنف ضد الأطفال، اليونيسف، نيويورك، 2023.
Pусский
Международная классификация насилия над детьми (МКННД )
Citation:
Детский фонд Организации Объединенных Наций, Международная классификация насилия над детьми, ЮНИСЕФ, Нью-Йорк, 2023 г.
Availability:
Fully available in all of the languages above
Purpose of the Classification
Statistical Domains:
1 Demographic and social statistics
Purpose:
The purpose of the ICVAC is to provide internationally agreed operational concepts, definitions and principles to ensure a standardized and consistent approach to classifying statistical data on violence against children. The aim of the classification is to improve data consistency, comparability, and quality across data sources, child protection sectors, and countries.
Main Applications:
The ICVAC is applicable to all types of data on violence against children, including administrative records as well as data collected in dedicated surveys on violence against children or generic surveys that include questions on such violence. The ICVAC also provides a list of policy-relevant disaggregation based on victim, perpetrator and circumstances of the act, that greatly assist cross-national analysis of patterns and trends in violence against children and its enabling and mitigating factors.
Main Users:
All data producers in the area of violence against children, such as government agencies, statistical authorities, civil society organizations, research institutions, law enforcement agencies, healthcare facilities, educational institutions, etc.
Methodology
Scope:
The ICVAC includes all harmful acts against a child that are deliberate, unwanted and non-essential. It covers interpersonal and collective violence against children, including state violence, in both peace and conflict situations. It excludes self-directed violence and composite phenomena like child marriage, trafficking, and child labour.
Concept Being Classified:
Violence against a child.
Statistical Units:
Violent act commited against a child or multiple children.
Main Principles:
Mutual exclusivity, exhaustiveness, and statistical feasibility.
Relationships to Other International Classifications:
Related To:
Major Differences (Scope, Structure, and Concepts):
International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS)
The ICCS captures all forms of “crime”, considered by the ICCS to be the punishable contravention or violation of the limits on human behaviour as imposed by national criminal legislation.
The ICCS has four hierarchical levels.
The ICCS classifies an act that constitutes a criminal offence.
International Classification of Diseases (ICD)
The ICVAC also makes use of some definitions in the World Health Organization (WHO) International Classification of Diseases (ICD), particularly from chapter 23, which categorizes injuries based on whether they were deliberately inflicted and by who caused them. The ICVAC includes almost all these categories except self-harm.
Other
The ICVAC also adopts definitions and aligns disaggregating variables from the UNODC/United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women) Statistical Framework for Measuring Gender-related Killings of Women and Girls, including the incorporation of gender-related killing and individual perpetrator sub-types.
Classification Structure
Definition of Structure:
Level:
Level Name:
Code Format:
Number of Items:
Level 1
Section
1
6
Level 2
Category
101
24
Revision Information
Chronology of revisions/versions of the classification:
Year Adopted:
Title or Version Number:
Website:
2023
Official Adopting Entity:
United Nations Statistical Commission
Coordinating Entity:
United Nations Children's Fund
Supporting Documents
Coding Index Available:
Yes
Index Website:
Available Languages:
English
Available Formats:
Excel
Training Materials and Other Documents:
Currently under development.
Training Website:
Contact Information
Agency / Office:
United Nations Children’s Fund
Unit:
Data and Analytics Section
Contact Name:
Claudia Cappa
Email:
Website: