Victims of Crime Survey 1998
South Africa, 1998
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ZAF_1998_VCS_v01_M
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VCS 1998
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VCS 1998
Person_v1
33.19 Reason for not reporting sexual offence to the police (v313)
Data file: VCS 1998 Main_v1
Overview
Valid:
30
Invalid:
3869
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
404
End:
405
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 13
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crime not serious enough | 2 |
6.7%
|
| 2 | Believed police would fail to solve the crime | 2 |
6.7%
|
| 3 | Thought that police would not take the incident seriously | 2 |
6.7%
|
| 4 | Police inappropriate/not necessary | 0 |
0%
|
| 5 | Solved the crime without police assistance /solved myself | 6 |
20%
|
| 6 | Felt it was partly my fault | 1 |
3.3%
|
| 7 | Police are corrupt | 1 |
3.3%
|
| 8 | Fear of reprisals by police | 3 |
10%
|
| 9 | Fear of being blamed for the crime | 1 |
3.3%
|
| 10 | Previous bad experiences when dealing with the police | 0 |
0%
|
| 11 | Could not identify the perpetrator | 3 |
10%
|
| 12 | Fear of being exposed or embarrassed | 4 |
13.3%
|
| 13 | Other | 5 |
16.7%
|
| Sysmiss | 3869 |
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.