Governance Public Safety and Justice Survey 2023-2024

South Africa, 2023 - 2024

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ZAF_2023-2024_GPSJS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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May 05, 2025

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Assault: WhyNot report assault (Notreport_asslt)

Data file: gpsjs-2023-2024-individual-v1

Overview

Valid: 21050

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Solved it myself	20	0.1%
2	Inappropriate for police/police not necessary	2	0%
3	Reported to other authorities instead	2	0%
4	My family resolved it	7	0%
6	Floods prevented us from reporting crime	9	0%
7	Police could do nothing/lack of proof	14	0.1%
9	Fear/dislike of the police/no involvement wanted with police	2	0%
10	Did not dare (for fear of reprisal)	2	0%
11	I do not trust the police	9	0%
88	Not applicable	20983	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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