Victims of Crime Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998

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33.19 Reason for not reporting sexual offence to the police (v313)

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	Thought that police would not take the incident seriously
4	Police inappropriate/not necessary
5	Solved the crime without police assistance /solved myself
6	Felt it was partly my fault
7	Police are corrupt
8	Fear of reprisals by police
9	Fear of being blamed for the crime
10	Previous bad experiences when dealing with the police
11	Could not identify the perpetrator
12	Fear of being exposed or embarrassed
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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