Victims of Crime Survey 1998
South Africa, 1998
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VCS 1998
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VCS 1998
Person_v1
30.14 Reason for not reporting mugging to the police (v266)
Data file: VCS 1998 Main_v1
Overview
Valid:
103
Invalid:
3796
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Start:
350
End:
351
Width:
2
Range:
-
Format:
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category |
|---|---|
| 1 | Crime not serious enough |
| 2 | Believed police would fail to solve the crime |
| 3 | Stolen goods were old/not very valuable/important |
| 4 | Police inappropriate/not necessary |
| 5 | Solved the crime without police assistance /solved myself |
| 6 | Goods were not insured |
| 7 | Police are corrupt |
| 8 | Fear of reprisals by police |
| 9 | Fear of reprisals by the offender |
| 10 | Fear of being blamed for the crime |
| 11 | Previous bad experiences when dealing with the police |
| 12 | Police are inaccessible/too far away |
| 13 | Could not identify the perpetrator |
| 14 | Other |
| Sysmiss |
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.