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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Cause for people to commit crime (Q210CommitCrime)
Data file: vcs-2017-2018-hhold-v1
Overview
Valid:
21190
Invalid:
0
Type:
Discrete
Decimal:
0
Width:
49
Range:
1 - 99
Format:
Numeric
Questions and instructions
Categories
| Value | Category | Cases | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Real need (e.g. food;clothes;accomodation) | 5206 |
24.6%
|
| 2 | Greed | 1552 |
7.3%
|
| 3 | Drugs related need | 10409 |
49.1%
|
| 4 | Jealousy | 671 |
3.2%
|
| 5 | Hatred or anger towards victim(s) or their family | 232 |
1.1%
|
| 6 | Attepmted rape | 50 |
0.2%
|
| 7 | Gang or other group related motive | 743 |
3.5%
|
| 8 | Racial; ethnic motivation | 108 |
0.5%
|
| 9 | Political motivation | 67 |
0.3%
|
| 10 | Anti-foreigner intent | 51 |
0.2%
|
| 11 | Discipline/attempted arrest | 141 |
0.7%
|
| 12 | Ritual killing | 34 |
0.2%
|
| 13 | Lack of norms or a lack of parental influence | 619 |
2.9%
|
| 14 | Other (specify) | 1234 |
5.8%
|
| 99 | Unspecified | 73 |
0.3%
|
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.