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Description & Citation--Study No. 9421 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 9421 |
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| Title: | International Victimization Survey, 1988 and 1992 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | J.J.M. van Dijk |
| Pat Mayhew | |
| Series: | International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS) Series |
| Bibliographic Citation: | van Dijk, J.J.M, and Pat Mayhew. INTERNATIONAL VICTIMIZATION SURVEY, 1988 AND 1992 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. The Hague, Netherlands: Dutch Ministry of Justice [producer], 1992. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997. |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This survey was undertaken in 1988 and 1992 to compare crime rates for industrialized countries and to assess national crime problems by providing a crime index independent of police statistics. Fifteen countries participated in the 1988 survey, and 13 countries were included in 1992. A standardized survey instrument was employed, with Japan, Czechoslovakia, and Poland using questionnaires and sampling methods that varied slightly from the rest. The data include variables such as number of people in the household, sex of the respondent, and number of respondents in the household 16 years of age and older as well as under 16. Additional household demographic variables include employment, education, income, insurance, and city size. Crimes covered include motor vehicle theft and damage, motor bicycle theft and damage, bicycle theft and damage, housebreaking, violence, robberies, assaults, and attempts. Victim-offender relationships, crime prevention techniques, and police contact variables are also provided. |
| Subject Term(s): | assault, auto theft, crime, crime prevention, crime rates, industrial nations, robbery, theft, victimization |
| Geographic Coverage: | Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czech Republic, England, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Norway, Poland, Scotland, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, United States, Global |
| Universe: | 1988 survey: Persons aged 16 and older living in Australia, Belgium, Canada, England/Wales, Finland, France, Germany (West), Japan, the Netherlands, Northern Ireland, Norway, Scotland, Spain, Switzerland, and the United States. 1992 survey: Persons aged 16 and older living in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Czechoslovakia, England/Wales, Finland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Sweden, and the United States. |
| Data Type: | survey data |
| Data Collection Notes: | A description of weighting procedures and the data collection instrument are provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided in the codebook and through the ICPSR Website on the Internet. The weighting procedures and data collection instrument are also available in hardcopy form upon request from ICPSR. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | For cost reasons, it was decided to interview by telephone where possible. In all countries using Computer-Assisted Telephone Interviewing (CATI), a regionally well-spread selection of households was sampled with some variant of random-digit dialing techniques. Within each household contacted by telephone, a procedure was used to randomly select a respondent 16 years of age or older, based on the composition of the household (the Troldahl-Carter method). No substitution of the selected respondent was allowed. |
| Data Source: | personal interviews and computer-assisted telephone 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: | 1990-12-04 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04. |
| 2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions. | |
| 1997-02-13 - Data for 1992 (Part 13) with corresponding electronic documentation and SAS and SPSS data definition statements are now available. | |
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