Victims of Crime Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998

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ZAF_1998_VCS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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19.17 Main reason for reporting to police the burglary (v167)

Data file: VCS 1998 Main_v1

Overview

Valid: 685

Invalid: 3214

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 230

End: 230

Width: 1

Range: 0 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
0		4	0.6%
1	Hoped that they would recover the stolen goods	375	54.7%
2	Wanted the offender to be caught /punished	294	42.9%
3	Goods were insured	12	1.8%
4	Crimes should be reported	0	0%
5	To stop it happening again	0	0%
6	Other	0	0%
Sysmiss		3214

Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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