National crime surveys, cities, 1972-1975
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Series: ICPSR -- 7658; ICPSR (Series) -- 7658
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1970
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Crime; Victims of crimes; Victims of crimes surveys
Description: The National Crime Surveys were designed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics to obtain detailed information about crime, its victims and consequences. The data were collected by the United States Census Bureau from 1972 to 1975 in 26 different cities. Interviews were conducted with household members in each household sampled and recorded detailed information about each household or personal victimization. The data include type of crime, description of offender, severity of crime, injuries or losses, and demographic characteristics of the household. Interviews were administered to different samples in 1972 and 1975 in Atlanta, Baltimore, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Newark, Portland, and St. Louis. In 1973 and 1975, interviews were conducted in Chicago, Chicago, Detroit, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, and New York. In 1974 only, interviews were conducted in Boston, Buffalo, Cincinnati, Houston, Miami, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Oakland, Pittsburgh, San Diego, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR Data class: Class I.

Data collected: 1972-1975.

United States.

The data for the complete sample are organized by city for each year into 39 separate data sets, each hierarchically structured in three levels. There are 43 variables and an average of 6,028 households, 38 variables for an average of 9,039 persons, and 199 variables for an average of 3,138 incidents per city per year. There is one subset file for each of the 26 cities presented in the Complete Cities Sample. The data contain 877 variables.