Victims of Crime Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998

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30.6 Type of weapon used in the mugging (v258)

Data file: VCS 1998 Main_v1

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Valid: 0

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 38

Range: 1 - 5

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category
1	A firearm (gun)
2	A knife or other sharp object
3	A stick or other blunt object
4	Something used as a weapon, e.g. stone
5	Don't know

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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