Victims of Crime Survey 2016-2017
South Africa, 2016 - 2017
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Reference ID
ZAF_2016_VCS_v01_M
Producer(s)
Statistics South Africa
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Jun 02, 2020
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Cause for people to commit crime (Q210CommitCrime)
Data file: vcs-2016-2017-hh-v1
Overview
Valid:
21095
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
103
End:
104
Width:
2
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real need (e.g. food;clothes;accomodation) | 5502 |
26.1%
|
| 2 | Greed | 2232 |
10.6%
|
| 3 | Drugs related need | 9378 |
44.5%
|
| 4 | Jealousy | 723 |
3.4%
|
| 5 | Hatred or anger towards victim(s) or their family | 337 |
1.6%
|
| 6 | Attepmted rape | 45 |
0.2%
|
| 7 | Gang or other group related motive | 757 |
3.6%
|
| 8 | Racial; ethnic motivation | 129 |
0.6%
|
| 9 | Political motivation | 140 |
0.7%
|
| 10 | Anti-foreigner intent | 75 |
0.4%
|
| 11 | Discipline/attempted arrest | 156 |
0.7%
|
| 12 | Ritual killing | 74 |
0.4%
|
| 13 | Lack of norms or a lack of parental influence | 397 |
1.9%
|
| 14 | Other (specify) | 880 |
4.2%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 270 |
1.3%
|
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.