Governance, Public Safety and Justice Survey 2024-2025

South Africa, 2024 - 2025

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zaf-statssa-gpsjs-2024-2025-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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Dec 04, 2025

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Data file: individual-2024-2025-v1

Overview

Valid: 20703

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Mean: 6.3224170410085

Standard deviation: 2.4703523284282

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Arrest criminals	454	2.2%
2	Assist police in police investigations	1734	8.4%
3	Prosecute accused persons	3287	15.9%
4	Present evidence in court	927	4.5%
5	Recover proceeds of crime from criminals	304	1.5%
6	Other (specify)	47	0.2%
8	Not applicable	13950	67.4%

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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