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Victims of Crime Survey 2017-2018

South Africa, 2017 - 2018
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Reference ID
ZAF_2017_VCS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
Collection(s)
DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Jun 02, 2020
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Housebreaking/burglary – Why not (Q128WhyNot)

Data file: vcs-2017-2018-v1-hh

Overview

Valid: 21190
Invalid: 0
Type: Discrete
Decimal: 0
Start: 477
End: 478
Width: 2
Range: 1 - 99
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Categories
Value Category Cases
1 Not serious enough/ 22
0.1%
2 Solved it myself/perpetrator known to me 54
0.3%
3 Inappropriate for police/police not necessary 16
0.1%
4 Reported to other authorities instead 28
0.1%
5 My family resolved it 8
0%
6 No insurance 215
1%
7 Police could do nothing/lack of proof 8
0%
8 Police won’t do anything about it 5
0%
9 Fear/dislike of the police/no involvement wanted with police 62
0.3%
10 Didn’t dare (for fear of reprisal) 4
0%
88 Not applicable 441
2.1%
99 Unspecified 20327
95.9%
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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