National Crime Victimization Survey Instrument Redesign Field Test - Condition 3B Web Based Panel Web Survey, [United States], 2022 (ICPSR 39321)

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The Ipsos commercial panel used for the Condition 3B (C3B) Web Test has been in existence since 1999. New members are recruited quarterly to compensate for attrition. Panel members are initially recruited from a probability sample of households in the United States. Adults from sampled households are invited to join the panel through a series of mailings and telephone calls. Invited households can join the panel by mail, phone, or online. Panel members who do not have internet access are provided with a web-enabled device and free internet service.

After initially accepting the invitation to join the panel, participants are asked to complete a short demographic survey. They then become active panel members. During the initial recruitment survey, all household members are enumerated. Following enumeration, attempts are made to recruit every household member who is at least 13 years old to participate in the Panel. For household members aged 13 to 17, consent is collected from the parents or the legal guardian during the initial recruitment survey.

The Web Test Panel sample was designed to reflect the geodemographic distribution of the country according to the ACS and the latest March 2021 supplement of the Current Population Survey. A total of 4,289 members were invited to complete the survey.

For the Web Test, one panel adult per household was asked to take part in the survey. This individual was administered the household respondent version of the survey. Selected panel members received an email invitation to complete the survey.

For youth, a sample of parents of 12-17 year olds was drawn from a list of those who had previously agreed to allow their child to participate on surveys. If they agreed, the youth was asked to complete the survey. Note these individuals were not part of households from which the adults were sampled. As with the Panel adult respondents, these individuals were administered the household respondent version of the survey.

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Members of the Ipsos web based panel age 12 or older.

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For Condition 3B (WBP Web survey), a total of 4,289 Panel members were invited to complete the survey. Of those, 60.7% completed the entire instrument. Among adults, 3,632 were invited to participate, of whom 64.8% completed the survey. Response from youth depended on both getting consent from parents and assent from the youth. Of the 657 parents who were approached, 41.7% provided permission. Of the youth for whom there was parental consent, 90.5% completed a survey. Combining the two stages, 37.7% of the youth from the parent sample participated on the survey.

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2026-07-30

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The C3B weighting process began by creating weights for adults and youth separately and then combining them with a final adjustment into a single set of weights.

The Panel youth base weights reflect the initial probability of selection, including adjusting for selection of the youth within the household. These base weights were then raked to national totals for gender, race/Hispanic origin, region, metropolitan status, and household income.

Panel adult base weights were also calculated to reflect the initial selection probabilities. These were then raked to national totals for gender by age, race/Hispanic origin, region, education, and household income.

The two sets of weights were then combined and raked to the national population for gender by age, race/Hispanic origin, education, region and household income. In the person level file:

• WEIGHT is the sampled person level weight.
• ADULT_WT is the weight for adults.
• TEEN_WT is the weight for youth.

• INC_WGT is the weight constructed for incident level analysis.

Personal Victimization rates

• Numerator: Compute the number of personal victimizations by summing the personal victimization weight across all personal crime incident records on the incident level file. Compute the personal victimization weight as shown below:

  For records that represent person level crimes (this includes person crimes TOCE equals 1 through 26), this weight (INC_WGT) was calculated by multiplying the weight of the sampled respondent (i.e., WEIGHT) times the Series size (SERIESCT) (where applicable - if the record represents a single incident, then Series was set to '1'). Series were capped at 10 for purposes of weighting.

• Denominator: Compute the number of households by summing WEIGHT across all the person records on the person level file.

For household-level victimization rates

For 3B (WBP Web survey), questions about household level crimes were only asked of adults. The denominator will be the sum of ADULT_WT (rather than WEIGHT).