ICPSR Metadata record for Commercial Victimization Surveys, 1972-1975 [United States]: Cities Sample ICPSR ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/). Commercial Victimization Surveys, 1972-1975 [United States]: Cities Sample United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research ICPSR 2006-01-12 8002 doi://10.3886/ICPSR08002.v2
The National Crime Surveys, of which these Commercial Victimization Surveys are a part, were conducted to obtain current and reliable measures of serious crime in the United States. The Commercial Victimization Surveys are restricted to coverage of burglary and robbery incidents. They include all types of commercial establishments as well as political, cultural, and religious organizations. The survey includes a series of questions about the business, e.g., type and size, form of ownership, insurance, security, and break-in and robbery characteristics. Time and place, weapon, injury, entry evidence, offender characteristics, and stolen property data were collected for each of the incidents. Data on both victimized and nonvictimized establishments in 26 different cities were collected during 1972, 1973, and 1974. In the 1975 survey, data from the 13 cities surveyed during 1972 and 1973 were collected again.
 UniverseScheme08002 ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.X armed robbery burglary businesses cities crime rates larceny national crime statistics (USA) offenders organizations robbery security systems urban crime victimization Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Buffalo, California, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Colorado, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Houston, Illinois, Los Angeles, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Miami, Michigan, Milwaukee, minneapolis, Minnesota, Missouri, Newark, New Jersey, New Orleans, New York City, New York (state), Oakland, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pittsburg, Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, St. Louis, Texas, United States, Wisconsin 1972 1975 event/transaction data, and survey data Commercial establishments of all types in the following 26 cities during the following four years. 1972 and 1975: Atlanta, Georgia, Baltimore, Maryland, Cleveland, Ohio, Dallas, Texas, Denver, Colorado, Newark, New Jersey, Portland, Oregon, and St. Louis, Missouri. 1973 and 1975: Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Los Angeles, California, New York, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1974: Boston, Massachusetts, Buffalo, New York, Cincinnati, Ohio, Houston, Texas, Miami, Florida, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New Orleans, Louisiana, Oakland, California, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, San Diego, California, San Francisco, California, and Washington, DC. Data were obtained from separate samples of business enterprises and organizations in each of the 26 cities through a multistage cluster sample design. personal interviews 1972 1975

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These data are contained in 39 hierarchical data files. There are two record types, business records and incident records. Every case has a business record. The number of incident records for a particular case varies according to the number of times (if any) that business had been victimized during the reference period. There are 168 variables.