Metadata record for National Crime Victimization Survey Longitudinal File, 1995-1999

National Crime Victimization Survey Longitudinal File, 1995-1999 United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2007-03-14 4414 doi://10.3886/ICPSR04414.v1

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series, 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. Occasionally there have been extract or supplement files created from the NCVS data series. This extract, the National Crime Victimization Survey Longitudinal File, 1995-1999, contains records from sample J19, rotations 2, 3, and 4. The Rotation 2 sample was introduced in Quarter 3, 1995, and expired in Quarter 4, 1998. The Rotation 3 sample was introduced in Quarter 1, 1996, and expired in Quarter 1, 1999. The Rotation 4 sample was introduced in Quarter 3, 1996, and expired in Quarter 4, 1999. 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 categorized 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 was 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" was 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 was also collected to enable analysis of crime by various subpopulations.

UniverseScheme04414 National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series For more information on the series, please go to http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/series/00095. Organization04414_1 ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.X 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 United States 1995 1999 household person crime incident survey data All persons in the United States aged 12 and over. Stratified multistage cluster sample. 1995 1999

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

Performed consistency checks.
Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

The data files include three weight variables: household, person, and incident. To use the weights correctly they must be adjusted. See the codebook for individual years of the NCVS for information on how to adjust the weights to calculate household, population, and victimization estimates. ICPSR

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.

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The original collector of the data, ICPSR, and the relevant funding agency bear no responsibility for use of the data or for interpretations or inferences based upon such uses.

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(1) The NCVS data are organized by year, with six collection quarters comprising an annual file: the four quarters of the current year plus the first two quarters of the following year. (2) Documentation, in addition to what is contained in the codebook for this data collection, is available in the data collections for individual years of NCVS.