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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Consumer fraud - WhyNot (WhyNot_Cons)

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

Overview

Valid: 20543

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Solved it myself	28	0.1%
2	Inappropriate for police/police not necessary	8	0%
3	Reported to other authorities instead	35	0.2%
7	Police could do nothing/lack of proof	7	0%
8	Police would not do anything about it	14	0.1%
11	I do not trust the police	4	0%
12	Other reasons (Specify)	8	0%
13	Do not know	2	0%
88	Not applicable	20248	98.6%
99	Unspecified	189	0.9%

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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