July 1, 2005    

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 786K)
Complete set of tables - Zip format (Spreadsheet 136K)
Demography of victims (PDF 90K)
Demography of victims - Zip format (Spreadsheet 34K)
Victims and offenders (PDF 380K)
Victims and offenders - Zip format (Spreadsheet 31K)
Geography (PDF 333K)
Geography - Zip format (Spreadsheet 18K)
The crime event (PDF 198K)
The crime event - Zip format (Spreadsheet 40K)
Victims and the criminal justice system (PDF 166K)
Victims and the criminal justice system - Zip archive (Spreadsheet 27K)
Series victimizations (PDF 84K)
Series victimizations - Zip format (Spreadsheet 8K)
Methodology (PDF 49K)
Methodology (ASCII file 47K)
NCVS questionnaires
Codebooks and Datasets

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