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Description & Citation--Study No. 3803 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 3803 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03803 |
| Title: | International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS), 1989-2000 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | ICVS International Working Group |
| Anna Alvazzi del Frate, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Turin, Italy | |
| Jan J.M. van Dijk, United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, Vienna, Austria | |
| John van Kesteren, United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI), Turin, Italy | |
| Pat Mayhew, Home Office, London, United Kingdom | |
| Series: | International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS) Series |
| Bibliographic Citation: | ICVS International Working Group, Anna Alvazzi del Frate, Jan J.M. van Dijk, John van Kesteren, and Pat Mayhew. INTERNATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY (ICVS), 1989-2000 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Netherlands: University of Leiden/Turin, Italy: United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) [producers], 2002. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2003. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03803 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | The International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS) is a far-reaching program of fully standardized surveys investigating householders' experience of crime in different countries. The data were collected in four waves: 1989, 1992, 1996, and 2000. The main focus of the ICVS is whether the respondent was a victim of theft of or from vehicles, other thefts, vandalism, robbery, pickpocketing, sexual harassment or violence, or assault. The surveys also investigated the frequency of victimization, reasons for not reporting a crime to the police, familiarity with the offender in the case of a sexual offense, physical violence, injuries, fear of crime in the respondent's local area, use of help agencies for victims, satisfaction with police behavior, preferred legal sanctions, punishment, and length of detention for offenders, safety precautions when leaving home, possession of a gun, burglar alarm, or insurance, and frequency of going out. Some of the 2000 surveys were administered nationally and some were restricted to a main city within a given country. The ICVS National Survey Data cover the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Catalonia, Denmark, England and Wales, Finland, France, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Poland, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United States. The ICVS City Survey Data cover the following countries: Albania, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, South Africa, Swaziland, Uganda, Ukraine, and Zambia. |
| Subject Term(s): | citizen crime reporting, commercial theft, crime, crime prevention, crime rates, developing nations, fear of crime, injuries, international crime statistics, law enforcement, nations, offenses, petty theft, police performance, punishment, reactions to crime, robbery, sanctions, security systems, sexual assault, sexual harassment, sex offenses, vandalism, victim services, victimization, violence |
| Geographic Coverage: | Albania, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Catalonia, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia (Republic), Hungary, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, Nigeria, Northern Ireland, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, South Africa, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, Ukraine, United States, Wales, Zambia, Global |
| Universe: | Persons aged 16 and over living in Albania, Argentina, Australia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Botswana, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Catalonia, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, England and Wales, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Hungary, Latvia, Lesotho, Lithuania, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Panama, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Republic of Korea, Romania, Russia, Scotland, Slovenia, South Africa, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, Ukraine, the United States, and Zambia. |
| Data Type: | survey data |
| Data Collection Notes: | (1) The principal investigators request that any publications using ICVS data be sent to John van Kesteren, UNICRI, Viale Maestri del Lavoro, 10, 10127 Torino, Italy. (2) Researchers are to note that some of the surveys were administered nationally and some were restricted to a main city in the country. The principal investigators request that all users of datasets be careful in selecting and comparing data. Data users are to consult the identification variables I001 through I009 and the weighting variables in the database and the codebook. (3) The codebook and data collection instruments for this collection are provided by ICPSR as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web site. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | Samples of 1,000 to 2,000 cases were drawn from the population of each country's largest city. In a few countries, the surveys covered several cities by random dialing. In some countries, there was an additional sample of 200 cases from rural areas, or a national sample was taken. Sampling was generally hierarchical. It began with identifying administrative areas within the city, followed by a step-by-step procedure aiming at identifying areas, streets, blocks, households, and, finally, household members aged 16 and over. No substitution of the selected respondent was allowed. There were some exceptions to this procedure. In Finland, a random selection of individuals was drawn from the population register. In Northern Ireland and some rural parts of Spain, telephone penetration was low and interviews were taken face-to-face with some computer assistance. |
| Data Source: | computer-assisted telephone interviews and personal interviews |
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. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 2003-10-30 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-18. |
| 2006-01-18 - File CB3803.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. | |
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