Victims of Crime Survey 2017-2018

South Africa, 2017 - 2018

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Reference ID

ZAF_2017_VCS_v01_M

Producer(s)

Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Documentation in PDF DDI/XML JSON

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Jun 02, 2020

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Jun 02, 2020

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Government spending to reduce crime (Q31GovSpend)

Data file: vcs-2017-2018-v1-hh

Overview

Valid: 21190

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 105

End: 105

Width: 1

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Law enforcement (more police; etc.)	3805	18%
2	The judiciary/courts (punishment; harsher penalties for offenders; etc.)	2433	11.5%
3	Social development (e.g. advocacy)	3239	15.3%
4	Economic development (e.g. job creation)	11599	54.7%
9	Unspecified	114	0.5%

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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