DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04414.v1
title: National Crime Victimization Survey Longitudinal File, 1995-1999
title: Version 1

description: The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series,
 previously called the National Crime Surveys (NCS), has been
 collecting data on personal and household victimization through an
 ongoing survey of a nationally-representative sample of residential
 addresses since 1973. Occasionally there have been extract or
 supplement files created from the NCVS data series. This extract, the
 National Crime Victimization Survey Longitudinal File, 1995-1999,
 contains records from sample J19, rotations 2, 3, and 4. The Rotation
 2 sample was introduced in Quarter 3, 1995, and expired in Quarter 4,
 1998. The Rotation 3 sample was introduced in Quarter 1, 1996, and
 expired in Quarter 1, 1999. The Rotation 4 sample was introduced in
 Quarter 3, 1996, and expired in Quarter 4, 1999. The NCVS was designed
 with four primary objectives: (1) to develop detailed information
 about the victims and consequences of crime, (2) to estimate the
 number and types of crimes not reported to the police, (3) to provide
 uniform measures of selected types of crimes, and (4) to permit
 comparisons over time and types of areas. The survey categorized
 crimes as "personal" or "property." Personal crimes include rape and
 sexual attack, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, and
 purse-snatching/pocket-picking, while property crimes include
 burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and vandalism. Each respondent
 was asked a series of screen questions designed to determine whether
 she or he was victimized during the six-month period preceding the
 first day of the month of the interview. A "household respondent" was
 also asked to report on crimes against the household as a whole (e.g.,
 burglary, motor vehicle theft). The data include type of crime, month,
 time, and location of the crime, relationship between victim and
 offender, characteristics of the offender, self-protective actions
 taken by the victim during the incident and results of those actions,
 consequences of the victimization, type of property lost, whether the
 crime was reported to police and reasons for reporting or not
 reporting, and offender use of weapons, drugs, and alcohol. Basic
 demographic information such as age, race, gender, and income was also
collected to enable analysis of crime by various subpopulations.
description: The data files include three weight variables: household,
 person, and incident. To use the weights correctly they must be
 adjusted. See the codebook for individual years of the NCVS for
 information on how to adjust the weights to calculate household,
population, and victimization estimates.
description: Stratified multistage cluster sample.
description: Datasets: 
DS1: 1995-1999 Full Hierarchical File
description: All persons in the United States aged 12 and over. Smallest Geographic Unit: region
description: face-to-face interview; computer-assisted telephone interview (CATI)(1) The NCVS data are organized by year, with six
 collection quarters comprising an annual file: the four quarters of
 the current year plus the first two quarters of the following
 year. (2) Documentation, in addition to what is contained in the
 codebook for this data collection, is available in the data
collections for individual years of NCVS.