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ANALYSIS OF QUANTITATIVE VARIABLES OBTAINED FROM OPEN DATA IN GENDER VIOLENCE PREVENTION STUDIES. CASE OF STUDY: VALENCIA (SPAIN)
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Gender-based violence is a threat to women's safety worldwide. The perception ofpublic spaces as a real or perceived threat to women ("fear of space") is an importantfactor in considering urban safety and can play a key role in preventing gender-basedviolence by perpetrators who are strangers to the victim.This article discusses strategies for identifying geo-referenced variables to model thisperception of urban space as a risk space for this type of gender-based violence. Thevarious data required are costly to obtain and need to be kept up to date. For this reason,data provided by the open data portals of the Spanish, Valencian and localadministrations and the OpenStreetMap platform were used. Information was obtainedon socio-economic variables, the services sector, real-time traffic information and realestate data.As a first step, this paper presents a statistical study to determine and validate thecorrelation between these variables. The results of the study show a moderately highcorrelation between the selected real estate variables. The remaining variables show amoderate or low correlation.In addition to the results obtained, the existence of open data offered by governmentagencies in studies related to the evaluation of safety in public spaces is of fundamentalimportance.
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