DOI: 10.3886/icpsr07658
title: National Crime Surveys: Cities, 1972-1975
title: Archival Version

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: 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.
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: Major cities in the United States.
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.