January 1, 2003    NCJ 197064

Presents tables with detailed data on major variables measured by the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS). Topics covered include --

• crimes of violence (rape, gender, sexual assault, robbery, assault) and theft (pocket picking, purse snatching, burglary, theft, and motor vehicle theft), with data on victim characteristics (gender, age, race, ethnicity, marital status, income, and residence)
• crime characteristics (time and place of occurrence, distance from home, weapon use, self-protection, injury, medical care, economic loss, and time lost from work)
• victim-offender relationship
• victims' perceptions of substance use by offenders and of offender characteristics (age, race, and gender)
• whether crimes were reported to the police and reasons why
• police response time for reported crimes

Part of the Criminal Victimization in the United States Series

Complete set of tables (PDF 1.7M)
Complete set of tables - Zip format (Spreadsheet 292K)
Demography of victims (PDF 426K)
Demography of victims - Zip format (Spreadsheet 64K)
Victims and offenders (PDF 419K)
Victims and offenders - Zip format (Spreadsheet 64K)
Geography (PDF 242K)
Geography - Zip format (Spreadsheet 36K)
The crime event (PDF 527K)
The crime event - Zip format (Spreadsheet 80K)
Victims and the criminal justice system (PDF 367K)
Victims and the criminal justice system - Zip format (Spreadsheet 80K)
Series victimizations (PDF 42K)
Series victimizations - Zip format (Spreadsheet 10K)
Methodology (PDF 56K)
Methodology (ASCII file 46K)
NCVS questionnaires
Codebooks and Datasets

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