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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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Statistics South Africa
Metadata
DDI/XML JSON
Created on
Dec 04, 2019
Last modified
Dec 04, 2023
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  • vcs-2017-2018-individual-v1
  • vcs-2017-2018-person-v1
  • vcs-2017-2018-hhold-v1

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

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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.
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