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Description & Citation--Study No. 4699

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:4699
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04699
 
Title:National Crime Victimization Survey, 1992-2005: Concatenated Incident-Level Files
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics
 
Series:National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series
 
Funding Agency:United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics.
 
Bibliographic Citation:United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. National Crime Victimization Survey, 1992-2005: Concatenated Incident-Level Files [Computer File]. ICPSR04699-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-07-16. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04699
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This data collection is an extract created from the individual years of the National Crime Victimization Survey. Each record contains information on a crime incident occurring in the given calendar year. Part 1 contains all crime incidents, and data Part 2 contains the crimes of rape and attempted rape only. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), previously called the National Crime Surveys (NCS), has been collecting data on personal and household victimization through an ongoing survey of a nationally-representative sample of residential addresses since 1973. The NCVS was designed with four primary objectives: (1) to develop detailed information about the victims and consequences of crime, (2) to estimate the number and types of crimes not reported to the police, (3) to provide uniform measures of selected types of crimes, and (4) to permit comparisons over time and types of areas. The survey categorizes crimes as "personal" or "property." Personal crimes include rape and sexual attack, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, and purse-snatching/pocket-picking, while property crimes include burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and vandalism. Each respondent is asked a series of screen questions designed to determine whether she or he was victimized during the six-month period preceding the first day of the month of the interview. A "household respondent" is also asked to report on crimes against the household as a whole (e.g., burglary, motor vehicle theft). The data include type of crime, month, time, and location of the crime, relationship between victim and offender, characteristics of the offender, self-protective actions taken by the victim during the incident and results of those actions, consequences of the victimization, type of property lost, whether the crime was reported to police and reasons for reporting or not reporting, and offender use of weapons, drugs, and alcohol. Basic demographic information such as age, race, gender, and income is also collected, to enable analysis of crime by various subpopulations.
 
Subject Term(s):assault, auto theft, burglary, crime, crime costs, crime rates, crime reporting, crime statistics, offenders, offenses, property crimes, rape, reactions to crime, robbery, sexual offenses, vandalism, victimization, victims
 
Smallest Geographic Unit:region
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1992 - 2005
 
Date(s) of Collection:January 1992 - June 2006
 
Unit of Observation:household, person, crime incident
 
Universe:All persons in the United States aged 12 and over.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:Starting with year 2005, ICPSR split the NCVS data files into two studies, one for the concatenated incident-level files (contained in this data collection) and one for the single-year files. This allows for more complete documentation of variables that were added or dropped since the inception of the NCVS is 1992.
 

Methodology

Sample:Stratified multistage cluster sample.
 
Weight:The data include ADJUSTED VICTIMIZATION WEIGHT - DATA YEAR (WGTVICDY) to calculate an estimate of victimizations. These data do not include sufficient records to calculate an estimate of household or person counts. To calculate household or person counts refer to the data collections for individual years' of NCVS data.
 
Mode of Data Collection:computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)
 
  face-to-face interview
 
  telephone interview
 
Extent of Processing:Performed consistency checks.
 
  Created variable labels and/or value labels.
 
  Standardized missing values.
 
  Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
 
  Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Restrictions:This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited.
 
Original ICPSR Release:2007-05-02
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2008-07-16.
 
  2008-07-16 - The data were updated to reflect new weights provided by the Census Bureau.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: 1992-2005 Concatenated Incident-Level File
  • DS2: 1992-2005 Concatenated Incident-Level Rape Subset
 

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