Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024-2025

South Africa, 2024 - 2025

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Dec 04, 2025

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Reason consumer fraud was not reported to police? (Whynot_cons)

Data file: individual-2024-2025-v1

Overview

Valid: 20703

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 88

Mean: 87.397237115394

Standard deviation: 7.085484630782

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Solved it myself	40	0.2%
2	Inappropriate for police/police not necessary	9	0%
3	Reported to other authorities instead	51	0.2%
5	No insurance	2	0%
7	Police could do nothing/lack of proof	18	0.1%
8	Police would not do anything about it	15	0.1%
11	I do not trust the police	3	0%
12	Other reasons (Specify)	10	0%
13	Do not know	1	0%
88	Not applicable	20554	99.3%

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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