Governance Public Safety and Justice Survey 2021-2022

South Africa, 2021 - 2022

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ZAF_2021_GPSJS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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DataFirst , University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Mar 08, 2023

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Theft of personal property - WhyNot (Q51A5WhyNot)

Data file: gpsjs-2021-2022-individual-v1

Overview

Valid: 1000

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 2

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Solved it myself	3	0.3%
2	Inappropriate for police/ police not necessary	2	0.2%
3	Reported to other authorities instead	1	0.1%
4	My family resolved it	1	0.1%
5	No insurance	2	0.2%
6	Police could do nothing/ lack of proof	0	0%
7	Police would not do anything about it	6	0.6%
8	Fear/ dislike of the police/ no involvement wanted with police	1	0.1%
9	Did not dare (for fear of reprisal)	0	0%
10	I do not trust the police	1	0.1%
11	Other reasons (specify)	1	0.1%
12	Do not know	0	0%
88	Not applicable	982	98.2%

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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