One of the scientific challenges in studying gender violence is the degree to which intersectionality is taken into account in surveys and data production. In the case of the Virage dans les Outre-mer survey (2018), the simple replication or extension of the mainland survey (2015) to three additional departments was not appropriate to describe adequately the phenomenon of gender violence. The critical analysis of the survey “in the making” proposes ways to respond to this methodological problem and to take into account the power dynamics linked to gender and social class, but also to race, and the relations between “metropolitan France” and the overseas territories, at the first three stages of the survey (its design, implementation and data collection).