Victims of Crime Survey 2015-2016

South Africa, 2015 - 2016

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zaf-statssa-vcs-2015-2016-v1

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Statistics South Africa

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Statistics South Africa

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Oct 25, 2019

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Data file: vcs-2015-2016-hhold-v1

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Valid: 21374

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 45

Range: 1 - 99

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Not serious enough	16	0.1%
2	Solved it myself/perpetrator known to me	4	0%
3	Inappropriate for police/police not necessary	6	0%
4	Reported to other authorities instead	15	0.1%
5	My family resolved it	5	0%
7	Police could do nothing/lack of proof	56	0.3%
8	Police won’t do anything about it	27	0.1%
11	Other reasons	12	0.1%
88	Not applicable	21224	99.3%
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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