DOI: 10.3886/icpsr07658.v1
title: National Crime Surveys: Cities, 1972-1975
title: Version 1

description: This sample of the National Crime Survey contains information about victimization in 26 central cities in the United States. The data are designed to achieve three primary objectives: 1) to develop detailed information about the victims and consequences of crime, 2) to estimate the numbers and types of crimes not reported to police, and 3) to provide uniform measures of selected types of crimes and permit reliable comparisons over time and between areas of the country. Information about each household or personal victimization was recorded. The data include type of crime (attempts are covered as well), description of offender, severity of crime, injuries or losses, time and place of occurrence, age, race and sex of offender(s), relationship of offenders to victims, education, migration, labor force status, occupation, and income of persons involved.
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Newark, 1972: Person-Level 
 DS2: St. Louis, 1972: Person-Level 
 DS3: Cleveland, 1972: Person-Level 
 DS4: Dallas, 1972: Person-Level 
 DS5: Atlanta, 1972: Person-Level 
 DS6: Baltimore, 1972: Person-Level 
 DS7: Denver, 1972: Person-Level 
 DS8: Portland, 1972: Person-Level 
 DS9: New York, 1973: Person-Level 
 DS10: Philadelphia, 1973: Person-Level 
 DS11: Chicago, 1973: Person-Level 
 DS12: Detroit, 1973: Person-Level 
 DS13: Los Angeles, 1973: Person-Level 
 DS14: Buffalo, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS15: Pittsburgh, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS16: Boston, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS17: Milwaukee, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS18: Minneapolis, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS19: Cincinnati, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS20: Miami, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS21: New Orleans, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS22: Houston, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS23: Washington, D.C., 1974: Person-Level 
 DS24: San Francisco, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS25: San Diego, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS26: Oakland, 1974: Person-Level 
 DS27: Newark, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS28: St. Louis, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS29: Cleveland, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS30: Dallas, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS31: Atlanta, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS32: Baltimore, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS33: Denver, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS34: Portland, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS35: New York, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS36: Philadelphia, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS37: Chicago, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS38: Detroit, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS39: Los Angeles, 1975: Person-Level 
 DS40: Newark, 1972: Incident-Level 
 DS41: St. Louis, 1972: Incident-Level 
 DS42: Cleveland, 1972: Incident-Level 
 DS43: Dallas, 1972: Incident-Level 
 DS44: Atlanta, 1972: Incident-Level 
 DS45: Baltimore, 1972: Incident-Level 
 DS46: Denver, 1972: Incident-Level 
 DS47: Portland, 1972: Incident-Level 
 DS48: New York, 1973: Incident-Level 
 DS49: Philadelphia, 1973: Incident-Level 
 DS50: Chicago, 1973: Incident-Level 
 DS51: Detroit, 1973: Incident-Level 
 DS52: Los Angeles, 1973: Incident-Level 
 DS53: Buffalo, 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS54: Pittsburgh, 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS56: Milwaukee, 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS57: Minneapolis, 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS58: Cincinnati, 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS59: Miami, 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS60: New Orleans, 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS61: Houston, 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS62: Washington, D.C., 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS63: San Francisco, 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS64: San Diego, 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS65: Oakland, 1974: Incident-Level 
 DS66: Newark, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS67: St. Louis, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS68: Cleveland, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS69: Dallas, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS70: Atlanta, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS71: Baltimore, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS72: Denver, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS73: Portland, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS74: New York, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS75: Philadelphia, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS76: Chicago, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS77: Detroit, 1975: Incident-Level 
 DS78: Los Angeles, 1975: Incident-Level
description: As part of its quality control procedures, ICPSR undertook a study using this data collection to determine whether it could replicate published figures from Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) publications. Based on study results of the analysis, ICPSR concluded that the BJS datasets accurately represent published figures. The replication study was done on the crime of robbery and used figures from the three publications identified in Appendix E of the documentation for this collection. Results of comparisons of dataset-derived estimates with published estimates are included in Appendix F.
The survey was conducted by the United States Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census.
description: Major cities in the United States.
description: Interviews were conducted with household members in each household sampled. The data for the Cities sample are organized by city for each year (1972-1975) into 39 separate incident-level and 39 separate person-level datasets. Each file represents a city for a year. A full sample of victims and a ten percent sample of non-victims for up to four incidents was employed. Thus, a maximum of four incidents per victim have been retained in the subset files. The remainder of the incidents were dropped. In the entire Cities Sample, approximately 97% of the respondents in each quarter report four or fewer incidents. As a sample of the National Crime Survey, this dataset contains 12,000 sample households selected in 26 chosen cities, with approximately 10,000 interviews having actually taken place in each.