Victims of Crime Survey 2012

South Africa, 2011

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

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Valid: 25248

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 60

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Not serious enough/no loss/kid’s stuff	4	0%
2	Solved it myself/perpetrator known to me	10	0%
3	Inappropriate for police/police not necessary	4	0%
4	Reported to other authorities instead	7	0%
5	My family resolved it	3	0%
7	Police could do nothing/lack of proof	8	0%
8	Police won’t do anything about it	7	0%
9	Fear/dislike of the police/no involvement wanted with police	2	0%
11	Other reasons	12	0%
88	Not applicable	25189	99.8%
99	Unspecified	2	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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