National Crime Surveys : National Sample, 1973-1983 / United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 7635.

ICPSR ; 7635

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime--United States.

Crime.

United States.

Victims of crimes--United States.

Victims of crimes.

Victims of crimes surveys--United States.

Victims of crimes surveys.

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

Sixth ICPSR edition.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1984.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The National Crime Survey (NCS), a study of personal and household victimization, measures victimization for six selected crimes, including attempts. The NCS was designed to achieve three primary objectives: to develop detailed information about the victims and consequences of crime, to estimate the number and types of crimes not reported to police, and to provide uniform measures of selected types of crime. The surveys cover the following types of crimes, including attempts: rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, and auto or motor vehicle theft. Crimes such as murder, kidnapping, shoplifting, and gambling are not covered. Questions designed to obtain data on the characteristics and circumstances of the victimization were asked in each incident report. Items such as time and place of occurrence, injuries suffered, medical expenses incurred, number, age, race, and sex of offender(s), relationship of offender(s) to victim (stranger, casual acquaintance, relative, etc.), and other detailed data relevant to a complete description of the incident were included. Legal and technical terms, such as assault and larceny, were avoided during the interviews. Incidents were later classified in more technical terms based upon the presence or absence of certain elements. In addition, data were collected in the study to obtain information on the victims' education, migration, labor force status, occupation, and income. Full data for each year are contained in Parts 101-110. Incident-level extract files (Parts 1-10, 41) are available to provide users with files that are easy to manipulate. The incident-level datasets contain each incident record that appears in the full sample file, the victim's person record, and the victim's household information. These data include person and household information for incidents only. Subsetted person-level files also are available as Parts 50-7... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07635

Contents:

Part 1: 1973, Incident Level; Part 2: 1974, Incident Level; Part 3: 1975, Incident Level; Part 4: 1976, Incident Level; Part 5: 1977, Incident Level; Part 6: 1978, Incident Level; Part 7: 1979, Incident Level; Part 8: 1980, Incident Level; Part 9: 1981, Incident Level; Part 10: 1982, Incident Level; Part 41: 1973-1982, Incident Level: Concatenated File; Part 50: 1973 Person Level, First Interview Quarter, All Victims,10 Percent Non-Victims, for Up to Four Incidents; Part 51: 1973 Person Level, Second Interview Quarter, AllVictims, 10 Percent Non-Victims, for Up to Four Incidents; Part 52: 1973 Person Level, Third Interview Quarter, All Victims,10 Percent Non-Victims, for Up to Four Incidents; Part 53: 1973 Person Level, Fourth Interview Quarter, All Victims,10 Percent Non-Victims, for Up to Four Incidents; Part 54: 1974 Person Level, First Interview Quarter, All Victims,10 Percent Non-Victims, for Up to Four Incidents; Part 55: 1974 Person Level, Second Interview Quarter, All ...

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

Start: 1973; and end: 1983.

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