Victims of Crime Survey 2016-2017

South Africa, 2016 - 2017

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Reference ID

ZAF_2016_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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Jun 02, 2020

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Government spending to reduce crime (Q31GovSpend)

Data file: vcs-2016-2017-hh-v1

Overview

Valid: 21095

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 105

End: 105

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Law enforcement (more police; etc.)	3815	18.1%
2	The judiciary/courts (punishment; harsher penalties for offenders; etc.)	2469	11.7%
3	Social development (e.g. advocacy)	1106	5.2%
4	Economic development (e.g. job creation)	13600	64.5%
9	Unspecified	105	0.5%

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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