Victims of Crime Survey 1998
South Africa, 1998
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ZAF_1998_VCS_v01_M
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VCS 1998
Main_v1 -
VCS 1998
Person_v1
32.19 Reason for not reporting assault or threat of assault to the police (v293)
Data file: VCS 1998 Main_v1
Overview
Valid:
249
Invalid:
3650
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
381
End:
382
Width:
2
Range:
0 - 13
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 3 |
1.2%
|
|
| 1 | Crime not serious enough | 78 |
31.3%
|
| 2 | Believed police would fail to solve the crime | 27 |
10.8%
|
| 3 | Stolen goods were old/not very valuable/important | 0 |
0%
|
| 4 | Solved the crime without police assistance /solved myself | 40 |
16.1%
|
| 5 | Police inappropriate/not necessary | 8 |
3.2%
|
| 6 | Goods were not insured | 0 |
0%
|
| 7 | Police are corrupt | 6 |
2.4%
|
| 8 | Fear of reprisals by police | 1 |
0.4%
|
| 9 | Fear of reprisals by the offender | 14 |
5.6%
|
| 10 | Previous bad experiences when dealing with the police | 6 |
2.4%
|
| 11 | Police are inaccessible/too far away | 4 |
1.6%
|
| 12 | Could not identify the perpetrator | 5 |
2%
|
| 13 | Other | 57 |
22.9%
|
| Sysmiss | 3650 |
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.