British Crime Survey, 1988 (ICPSR 9850)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Great Britain Home Office Research and Planning Unit

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09850.v1

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Summary

This 1988 survey, the third in a series of surveys instituted by the Home Office in 1982, examines levels of victimization in Great Britain and offers attitudinal data on issues relating to crime. The 1988 survey was intended to replicate the 1982 and 1984 surveys (ICPSR 8672 and 8685) as much as possible. However, in 1988 an additional sample of ethnic minority respondents was included. Respondents were asked a series of screening questions to establish whether they had been the victims of crime during the reference period, and another series of detailed questions about the incidents they reported. Basic descriptive background information, such as sex, age, employment, education, and number of children, was also collected on the respondents and their households. Other information was collected on fear of crime, contact with the police, lifestyle, and self-reported offending. Part 1 consists of data captured on the Demographic Questionnaire. Parts 2 and 3 represent data collected via Follow-Up Questionnaire A and Follow-Up Questionnaire B, respectively. Each respondent completed one of the two Follow-Up Questionnaires, with all respondents in the ethnic minority sample completing Follow-Up Questionnaire B. Part 4 consists of data from the Main Questionnaire. Each respondent completed a Main Questionnaire that included a large number of screening questions to identify crime victims, and some attitudinal questions. Data in Part 5 were collected from the Victim Form. Only respondents reporting incidents of victimization on the Main Questionnaire have Victim Forms, with up to four Victim Forms per respondent. The unit of analysis for this collection is the individual.

Citation

Great Britain Home Office Research and Planning Unit. British Crime Survey, 1988. [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09850.v1

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Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

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Time Period(s)

1987

Date of Collection

1988-01 -- 1988-04

Data Collection Notes

  1. The SAS and SPSS data definition statements provided with this collection are incomplete. SAS Proc Format Statements, SAS Format Statements, and SPSS Value Label Statements are not supplied.

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Sample

Multistage probability sample using electoral registers as the frame.

Universe

Individuals aged 16 and over living in private households in England and Wales whose addresses appear in the electoral registers.

Data Source

personal interviews

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Original Release Date

1993-04-03

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Great Britain Home Office Research and Planning Unit. BRITISH CRIME SURVEY, 1988. ICPSR version. London, England: Social and Community Planning Research, NOP Market Research Limited [producer], 1990. Colchester, England: ESRC Data Archive/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 1995. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR09850.v1

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 11 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

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