Victims of Crime Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998

Get Microdata

Reference ID

ZAF_1998_VCS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

Collection(s)

DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

Metadata

Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

Created on

Jan 09, 2013

Last modified

May 05, 2014

Page views

28622

Downloads

11539

32.9 Type of weapon used in the assault or threat of assault (v283)

Data file: VCS 1998 Main_v1

Overview

Valid: 197

Invalid: 3702

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 371

End: 371

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	A firearm (gun)	38	19.3%
2	A knife or other sharp object	91	46.2%
3	A stick or other blunt object	46	23.4%
4	Something used as a weapon, e.g. stone	22	11.2%
5	Don't know	0	0%
Sysmiss		3702

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.

Back to Catalog