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Identity Theft, 2004Presents data on identity theft victimization and its consequences from the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). This is the first report from new questions about identity theft added to the survey in July 2004 and encompasses credit card thefts, thefts from existing accounts, misuse of personal information, and multiple types at the same time. The report, based on interviews with 40,000 household residents drawn to be nationally representative, describes age, race, and ethnicity of the household head; household income; and location of the household (urbanicity). Characteristics of the theft presented include economic loss, how the theft was discovered, whether misuse is ongoing, and problems experienced as a result of the identity theft. Highlights include the following:
04/06 NCJ 212213 Press release | Acrobat file (152K) | ASCII file (34K) | Spreadsheets (zip format 60K) About the source data | To order paper version | Codebooks & data sets |
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