Victims of Crime Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998

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23.16 Reasons for not reporting hijacking attempt (v207)

Data file: VCS 1998 Main_v1

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Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 57

Range: 1 - 13

Format: Numeric

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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	Solved the crime without police assistance /solved myself
5	Police inappropriate/not necessary
6	Goods were not insured
7	Police are corrupt
8	Fear of reprisals by police
9	Fear of reprisals by the offender/s
10	Previous bad experiences when dealing with the police
11	Police are inaccessible/too far away
12	Could not identify the perpetrator
13	Other

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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