DOI: 10.3886/icpsr08002.v1
title: Commercial Victimization Surveys, 1972-1975 [United States]: Cities Sample
title: Version 1

description: The National Crime Surveys, of which these Commercial Victimization Surveys are a part, were conducted to obtain current and reliable measures of serious crime in the United States. The Commercial Victimization Surveys are restricted to coverage of burglary and robbery incidents. They include all types of commercial establishments as well as political, cultural, and religious organizations. The survey includes a series of questions about the business, e.g., type and size, form of ownership, insurance, security, and break-in and robbery characteristics. Time and place, weapon, injury, entry evidence, offender characteristics, and stolen property data were collected for each of the incidents. Data on both victimized and nonvictimized establishments in 26 different cities were collected during 1972, 1973, and 1974. In the 1975 survey, data from the 13 cities surveyed during 1972 and 1973 were collected again.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Standardized missing values.; Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: 1972, Newark 
 DS2: 1972, St. Louis 
 DS3: 1972, Cleveland 
 DS4: 1972, Dallas 
 DS5: 1972, Atlanta 
 DS6: 1972, Baltimore 
 DS7: 1972, Denver 
 DS8: 1972, Portland, Oregon 
 DS9: 1973, New York 
 DS10: 1973, Philadelphia 
 DS11: 1973, Chicago 
 DS12: 1973, Detroit 
 DS13: 1973, Los Angeles 
 DS14: 1974, Buffalo 
 DS15: 1974, Pittsburgh 
 DS16: 1974, Boston 
 DS17: 1974, Milwaukee 
 DS18: 1974, Minneapolis 
 DS19: 1974, Cincinnati 
 DS20: 1974, Miami 
 DS21: 1974, New Orleans 
 DS22: 1974, Houston 
 DS23: 1974, Washington, D.C. 
 DS24: 1974, San Francisco 
 DS25: 1974, San Diego 
 DS26: 1974, Oakland 
 DS27: 1975, Newark 
 DS28: 1975, St. Louis 
 DS29: 1975, Cleveland 
 DS30: 1975, Dallas 
 DS31: 1975, Atlanta 
 DS32: 1975, Baltimore 
 DS33: 1975, Denver 
 DS34: 1975, Portland, Oregon 
 DS35: 1975, Philadelphia 
 DS36: 1975, New York 
 DS37: 1975, Chicago 
 DS38: 1975, Detroit 
 DS39: 1975, Los Angeles
description: These data are contained in 39 hierarchical data files. There are two record types, business records and incident records. Every case has a business record. The number of incident records for a particular case varies according to the number of times (if any) that business had been victimized during the reference period. There are 168 variables.
description: Commercial establishments of all types in the following 26 cities during the following four years. 1972 and 1975: Atlanta, Georgia, Baltimore, Maryland, Cleveland, Ohio, Dallas, Texas, Denver, Colorado, Newark, New Jersey, Portland, Oregon, and St. Louis, Missouri. 1973 and 1975: Chicago, Illinois, Detroit, Michigan, Los Angeles, California, New York, New York, and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. 1974: Boston, Massachusetts, Buffalo, New York, Cincinnati, Ohio, Houston, Texas, Miami, Florida, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New Orleans, Louisiana, Oakland, California, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, San Diego, California, San Francisco, California, and Washington, DC.
description: Data were obtained from separate samples of business enterprises and organizations in each of the 26 cities through a multistage cluster sample design.