National Crime Victimization Survey Longitudinal File, 1995-1999 / United States Department of Justice. Bureau ofJustice Statistics.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 4414.

ICPSR ; 4414

National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series ; 4414

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The National Crime Victimization Survey (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. Occasionally there have been extract or supplement files created from the NCVS data series. This extract, the National Crime Victimization Survey Longitudinal File, 1995-1999, contains records from sample J19, rotations 2, 3, and 4. The Rotation 2 sample was introduced in Quarter 3, 1995, and expired in Quarter 4, 1998. The Rotation 3 sample was introduced in Quarter 1, 1996, and expired in Quarter 1, 1999. The Rotation 4 sample was introduced in Quarter 3, 1996, and expired in Quarter 4, 1999. 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 categorized crimes as "personal" or "property." Personal crimes include rape and sexual attack, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, and purse-snatching/pocket-picking, while property crimes include burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and vandalism. Each respondent was 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" was also asked to report on crimes against the household as a whole (e.g., burglary, motor vehicle theft). 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 incid... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04414

Contents:

Part 1: 1995-1999 Full Hierarchical File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2008-01-04.

Start: 1995; and end: 1999.

OCLC:

190871653

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.