National crime surveys
Subtitle: victim risk supplement, 1983
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Series: ICPSR -- 8316; ICPSR (Series) -- 8316
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] :
Subjects: Victims of crimes; Victims of crimes surveys
Description: This special one-time survey was designed to collect data on persons reporting household victimizations. The Supplement was administered over a one month period as part of the National Crime Survey. The purpose of the Supplement was to collect data on people's life-styles in order to determine whether certain life-styles are related to crime victimization. The Victim Risk Supplement is based on five questionnaires used by the Census Bureau for data collection. The first and second questionnaires, VRS-1 and VRS-2, contain basic screen questions and an incident report, respectively. VRS-3, the third questionnaire, was completed for every household member age 16 or older, and it includes questions specifically designed to determine whether a person's life-style at work, home, or during leisure time affects the risk of crime victimization. The interviewers completed the fourth and fifth questionnaires, VRS-4 and VRS-5. They were instructed to answer questions about the respondents' neighborhoods and behavior during the interview.
Notes: Survey data.

The dataset is hierarchical, containing three levels of information within one file. These three levels of data can be used jointly or independently of each other and are made up of the following types of information: data on the household, data on the persons in that household, and data on the criminal victimizations experienced by members in that household. The hierarchical file has 42,448 records which are broken up as follows: 14,258 household level records, 25,238 person level records, and 2,952 victimization records. There is one record per case for each of the levels. The logical record length (LRECL) of the household level portion of the data file is 252. The person level LRECL is 323, and the victimization level is 470. The data file is variable blocked. There is also a fixed block file. Its contents and structure are identical to the variable blocked data file except that the record lengths of the 3 levels of data have a uniform length 470. The fixed block hierarchical data file exists for users whose computing facilities cannot handle variable blocked data.

Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network

ICPSR data class: Class I.

Chronological coverage: 1983; data collected: February 1984.

personal interviews from the National Crime Survey: National Sample

United States.

OSIRIS format.

Part number: 1 ; file structure: hierarchical ; variable count: 725 ; records per case: 1

Stratified multi-stage cluster sample. For complete description of sampling design see CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1983. Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ-96459 (Washington, D.C.: August 1985)

Universe: Individuals age 12 and over from U.S. households

CRIMINAL VICTIMIZATION IN THE UNITED STATES, 1983 Bureau of Justice Statistics, NCJ-96459 (Washington, D.C.: August 1985)