Governance Public Safety and Justice Survey 2022-2023

South Africa, 2022 - 2023

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ZAF_2022-2023_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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Aug 12, 2025

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Housebreaking/burglary - WhyNot (Q12B5WhyNot)

Data file: gpsjs-2022-2023-hhold-v1

Overview

Valid: 20695

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	102	0.5%
2	Inappropriate forpolice/police not necessary	58	0.3%
3	Reported to otherauthorities instead	39	0.2%
4	My family resolved it	40	0.2%
5	No insurance	4	0%
7	Police could do nothing/lack of proof	138	0.7%
8	Police would not do anything about it	149	0.7%
9	Fear/ dislike of the police/ no involvement wanted with police	5	0%
10	Did not dare (for fear of reprisal)	9	0%
11	I do not trust the police	13	0.1%
12	Other reasons (specify)	27	0.1%
13	Do not know	3	0%
88	Not applicable	20108	97.2%

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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