Victims of Crime Survey 2012

South Africa, 2011

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zaf-statssa-vcs-2012-v2.1

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Statistics South Africa

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Governance, Public Safety and Justice Data

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Data file: vcs-2012-individual-v2.1

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Valid: 25248

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 64

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Took measures to protect my house or property (target hardening)	18	0.1%
2	Increased awareness/more alert	76	0.3%
3	Acquired a gun	1	0%
4	Acquired another type of weapon (other than a gun)	1	0%
7	Replaced door locks	2	0%
8	Other	15	0.1%
88	Not applicable	25126	99.5%
99	Unspecified	9	0%

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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