violence against women is an obstacle to the achievement of the objectives of equality development and peace united nations statistics on the prevalence of various types of violence causes and consequences of violence and access by victims of violence to formal and informal support for can lead to better focused and more efficient preventive and intervention efforts gender statistics may be considered a field of statistics see for example unece and world bank institute however the production of gender statistics should not be misunderstood as being limited to the compilation of sexdisaggregated statistics from various statistical fields and their dissemination in genderfocused publications reports or databases