Victims of Crime Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998

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ZAF_1998_VCS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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23.13 Reasons for reporting to the police hijacking attempt (v204)

Data file: VCS 1998 Main_v1

Overview

Valid: 50

Invalid: 3849

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 271

End: 271

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 6

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Hoped that they would recover the stolen vehicle/s	14	28%
2	Wanted the offender to be caught /punished	24	48%
3	Vehicle/s were insured	3	6%
4	Crimes should be reported	2	4%
5	To stop it happening again	6	12%
6	Other	1	2%
Sysmiss		3849

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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