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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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Data file: VCS 1998 Main_v1

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Valid: 24

Invalid: 3875

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 273

End: 273

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Police did insufficient to solve the case	6	25%
2	Police showed a lack of interest	8	33.3%
3	Police failed to find/arrest the offender	8	33.3%
4	Police failed to recover the stolen goods/property	1	4.2%
5	Police were rude/impolite/treated complainant badly	0	0%
6	Police failed to keep victim/informant properly informed	0	0%
7	Police were slow to arrive	1	4.2%
8	Other	0	0%
9	Don’t know	0	0%
Sysmiss		3875

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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