Victims of Crime Survey 2017-2018

South Africa, 2017 - 2018

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zaf-statssa-vcs-2017-2018-v1.1

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Statistics South Africa

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Dec 04, 2019

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Dec 04, 2023

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Why not report - robbery (Q2413WhyNot)

Data file: vcs-2017-2018-individual-v1

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Valid: 20985

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 60

Range: 1 - 88

Format: Numeric

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Value	Category	Cases
1	Not serious enough	2	0%
2	Solved it myself/perpetrator known to me	8	0%
3	Inappropriate for police/police not necessary	1	0%
4	Reported to other authorities instead	1	0%
6	No insurance	35	0.2%
7	Police could do nothing/lack of proof	25	0.1%
8	Police won't do anything about it	3	0%
9	Fear/dislike of the police/no involvement wanted with police	20854	99.4%
10	Did not dare (for fear of reprisal)	5	0%
11	Other reasons	3	0%
88	Not applicable	48	0.2%

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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