Victims of Crime Survey 2016-2017

South Africa, 2016 - 2017

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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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Why not report - assault (Q2614WhyNot)

Data file: vcs-2016-2017-section21to28-v1

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Valid: 20936

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 580

End: 581

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not serious enough	13	0.1%
2	Solved it myself/perpetrator known to me	4	0%
3	Inappropriate for police/police not necessary	2	0%
4	Reported to other authorities instead	10	0%
6	No insurance	10	0%
7	Police could do nothing/lack of proof	10	0%
8	Police won't do anything about it	3	0%
9	Fear/dislike of the police/no involvement wanted with police	5	0%
10	Did not dare (for fear of reprisal)	6	0%
99	Unspecified	20873	99.7%

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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