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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Governance, Public Safety and Justice Data

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Dec 04, 2019

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Dec 04, 2023

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First person to call for help (Q36Victims)

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

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Valid: 21190

Invalid: 0

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Width: 48

Range: 1 - 9

Format: Numeric

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Categories

Value	Category	Cases
1	Nobody	399	1.9%
2	Relative/friend	4316	20.4%
3	Private security companies	1331	6.3%
4	Community group/organisation	690	3.3%
5	Religious/traditional (incl. traditional leader)	758	3.6%
6	SAPS	11034	52.1%
7	Metro police	535	2.5%
8	Community policing forum	1979	9.3%
9	Other	148	0.7%

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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