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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Protect yourself against crime (Perscomm)

Data file: individual-2024-2025-v1

Overview

Valid: 20703

Minimum: 1

Maximum: 8

Mean: 4.1407525479399

Standard deviation: 1.3692287313932

Type: Discrete

Width: 16

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Continue watching	270	1.3%
2	Confront the criminal	990	4.8%
3	Call the police	7994	38.6%
4	Call the security service	1132	5.5%
5	Call my neighbour	8749	42.3%
6	I will use my cell phone to record	131	0.6%
7	Walk away / run away	1061	5.1%
8	Other (specify)	376	1.8%

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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