Victims of Crime Survey 2017-2018

South Africa, 2017 - 2018

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ZAF_2017_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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Jun 02, 2020

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Theft of personal property – Why not report (Q228WhyNot)

Data file: vcs-2017-2018-v1-section21to28

Overview

Valid: 20985

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 186

End: 187

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not serious enough	15	0.1%
2	Solved it myself/perpetrator known to me	22	0.1%
3	Inappropriate for police/police not necessary	3	0%
4	Reported to other authorities instead	6	0%
5	My family resolved it	4	0%
6	No insurance	100	0.5%
7	Police could do nothing/lack of proof	81	0.4%
8	Police won't do anything about it	3	0%
9	Fear/dislike of the police/no involvement wanted with police	6	0%
10	Did not dare (for fear of reprisal)	13	0.1%
88	Not applicable	107	0.5%
99	Unspecified	20625	98.3%

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.

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