Victims of Crime Survey 2011

South Africa, 2011

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ZAF_2011_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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Jan 09, 2013

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Data file: VCS 2011 Hhold_v1

Overview

Valid: 24145

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 499

End: 500

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not serious enough/no loss/kid’s stuff	20	0.1%
2	Solved it myself/perpetrator known to me	21	0.1%
3	Inappropriate for police/police not necessary	18	0.1%
4	Reported to other authorities instead	42	0.2%
5	My family resolved it	9	0%
6	No insurance	0	0%
7	Police could do nothing/lack of proof	58	0.2%
8	Police won’t do anything about it	176	0.7%
9	Fear/dislike of the police/no involvement wanted with police	1	0%
10	Didn’t dare (for fear of reprisal)	4	0%
11	Other reasons	30	0.1%
12	Don’t know	0	0%
88	Not applicable	23111	95.7%
99	Unspecified	655	2.7%

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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