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Description & Citation--Study No. 6406
Bibliographic Description |
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Study No.: |
6406 |
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Title: |
National Crime Victimization Survey, 1992-1999 |
Alternate Title: |
NCVS |
Principal Investigator(s): |
United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics |
Funding: |
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics |
Bibliographic Citation: |
U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY, 1992-1999. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. ICPSR06406-v12. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2005-04-01. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06406.v12 |
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Scope of Study |
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Summary: |
The National Crime Victimization Surveys (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. 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 categorizes crimes as "personal" or "property." Personal crimes cover rape and sexual attack, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, and purse-snatching/pocket-picking, while property crimes cover burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and vandalism. Each respondent is 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" is asked to report on crimes against the household as a whole (e.g., burglary, motor vehicle theft) as well as personal crimes against him- or herself. 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 is also collected, to enable analysis of crime by various subpopulations. |
Subject Terms: |
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 |
Smallest Geographic Unit: |
Region |
Geographic Coverage: |
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Time Period: |
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Date of Collection: |
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Unit of Observation: |
Households, Persons, Crime incidents |
Universe: |
All persons in the United States 12 years of age and older. |
Data Types: |
survey data |
Data Collection Notes: |
2008-12-17 This data collection has been deaccessioned and is no longer available. Replaced by studies 22929, 22928,22927, 22926, 22925, 22924, 22923, 22922. 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. Data for the Full Files are hierarchically structured, with four levels: Address ID, Household, Person, and Incident. The number of records and variables for each file, as well as the logical record length, can be found in the codebooks. Incident-Level files were created from the annual hierarchical files and include information on victims rather than nonvictims. There are three types of Incident-Level files: single year, concatenated annual, and concatenated rape subset. In all three types, an Incident record was extracted from the hierarchical full files. The Incident-Level files were bounded by calendar year. All person-level files have been removed from the Web site because of limited interest in them and the relative ease of creating person-level files without the limitation of a 10 percent sample of nonvictims. |
Methodology |
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Sample: |
Stratified multistage cluster sample. |
Weight: |
The data files include three weight variables: household, person, and incident. To use the weights correctly they must be adjusted. See the codebook for information on how to adjust the weights to calculate household, population, and victimization estimates. |
Mode of Data Collection: |
face-to-face interview, computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI) |
Data Source: |
personal and telephone interviews |
Extent of Processing: |
All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive 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, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
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Access and Availability |
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Note: |
Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
Original ICPSR Release: |
1996-10-02 |
Restrictions: |
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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