National Crime Victimization Survey: Supplemental Fraud Survey, [United States], 2017 (ICPSR 37825)
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United States. Bureau of Justice Statistics
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR37825.v1
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The Supplemental Fraud Survey (SFS) obtained additional information about fraud-related victimizations so that policymakers; academic researchers; practitioners at the federal, state, and local levels; and special interest groups who are concerned with these crimes can make informed decisions concerning policies and programs. The SFS asked questions related to victims' experiences with fraud. These responses are linked to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) survey instrument responses for a more complete understanding of the individual victim's circumstances.
The 2017 Supplemental Fraud Survey (SFS) was the first implementation of this supplement to the annual NCVS to obtain specific information about fraud-related victimization and disorder on a national level. Since the SFS is a supplement to the NCVS, it is conducted under the authority of Title 34, United States Code, section 10132. Only Census employees sworn to preserve confidentiality may see the completed questionnaires.
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The primary purpose of the Supplemental Fraud Survey (SFS) is to obtain additional information about fraud-related victimizations so that policymakers; academic researchers; practitioners at the federal, state, and local levels; and special interest groups who are concerned with these crimes can make informed decisions concerning policies and programs. The SFS asked questions related to victims' experiences with fraud. These responses are linked to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) survey instrument responses for a more complete understanding of the individual victim's circumstances.
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The SFS was administered at the end of the NCVS interview for each eligible respondent age 18 or older. The 2017 SFS was conducted from October through December 2017.
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NCVS household members ages 18 or older.
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The variables that are exclusive to the Supplemental Fraud Survey (SFS) belong to the following topics:
- Prize or grant fraud
- Phantom debt collection fraud
- Charity fraud
- Employment fraud
- Consumer investment fraud
- Consumer products or services fraud (excluding unauthorized billing)
- Relationship/trust fraud
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Of the 66,229 NCVS respondents eligible for the Supplemental Fraud Survey (SFS), 51,179 (77.3%) completed the SFS interview. The remaining 22.7% were noninterviews.
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2021-04-15
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2021-04-15 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:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Standardized missing values.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.