National crime surveys extract
Subtitle: Personal crime longitudinal files, 1976-1982
By: principal investigator, Christopher A. Innes
Series: ICPSR -- 8315; ICPSR (Series) -- 8315
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Robbery; Assault and battery; Victims of crimes surveys
Description: The National Crime Survey (NCS) collects data on personal and household victimization through an ongoing national survey of households and household members. Only data for robbery and assaults are included in this dataset. Items included are time and place of occurrence, injuries suffered, medical expenses incurred, number, age, race, and sex of offender(s), relationship of offender(s) to victim, marital status, employment, military experience, and residency. This collection has two components: Assault Victim Experiences, and Victim and Non-victim Responses. The two components are contained in two separate codebooks. Assault Victim Experiences includes only data on assault victims, and is contained in one file. Victim and Non-Victim Responses contains data for both victims and non-victims, and is contained in one file.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class II.

Chronological coverage: 1976-1982.

United States.

The assault victim file has 5,846 records and a logical record length of 914 characters. The victim and non-victim file has 108,245 cases and a logical record length of 530 characters.