Abstract
The article is devoted to the analysis of quantitative and qualitative indicators of domestic violence, high-lighted in the official statistics of the Republic of Kazakhstan. Today, our country uses the maximum possible arsenal of means to solve the problemof domestic violence, demonstrates its readiness to identify its causes and neutralize them. The authors used historical and statistical methods of cognition of legal reality, consid-ered the normative provisions of the Kazakh legislation, which forms the legal basis for the prevention of this negative phenomenon. An objective assessment is given of the development of the system of assistance to victims of violence, improvement of information and statistical accounting of domestic violence. Discrepan-cies were identified and specific comments were made (in particular, on units of measurement, data sources, and the reporting period) when posting statistical information in open sources in accordance with the Meth-odology for forming a system of basic and additional indicators of gender statistics. To determine the real state of domestic violence, the authors recommend conducting a specific sociological study, and using official data, the results of expert surveys, as well as victims of domestic violence as an empirical database. The arti-cle argues for a change in the form of statistical reporting, which includes a list of criminal offenses commit-ted in the family and household sphere, rather than their definition, which is a consolidation of the totality of their signs. The necessity of conducting analytical studies of domestic violence on a regular basis is substanti-ated