Victims of Crime Survey 2011

South Africa, 2011

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ZAF_2011_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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Jan 09, 2013

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Data file: VCS 2011 Hhold_v1

Overview

Valid: 24145

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 649

End: 650

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not serious enough/no loss/kid’s stuff	18	0.1%
2	Solved it myself/perpetrator known to me	15	0.1%
3	Inappropriate for police/police not necessary	6	0%
4	Reported to other authorities instead	2	0%
5	My family resolved it	5	0%
6	No insurance	3	0%
7	Police could do nothing/lack of proof	27	0.1%
8	Police won’t do anything about it	33	0.1%
9	Fear/dislike of the police/no involvement wanted with police	2	0%
10	Didn’t dare (for fear of reprisal)	0	0%
11	Other reasons	18	0.1%
12	Don’t know	2	0%
88	Not applicable	23669	98%
99	Unspecified	345	1.4%

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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