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International Crime Victimization Survey (ICVS), 1989-2000

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Principal Investigator(s): ICVS International Working Group; Alvazzi del Frate, Anna; van Dijk, Jan J.M.; van Kesteren, John; Mayhew, Pat

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... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03803.v1

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