Victims of Crime Survey 1998

South Africa, 1998

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ZAF_1998_VCS_v01_M

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Statistics South Africa

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19.19 Reason for dissatisfaction with reporting to the police burglary (v169)

Data file: VCS 1998 Main_v1

Overview

Valid: 375

Invalid: 3524

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 232

End: 232

Width: 1

Range: -

Format:

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Categories

Value	Category
1	Police did insufficient to solve the case
2	Police showed a lack of interest
3	Police failed to find/arrest the offender
4	Police failed to recover the stolen goods/property
5	Police were rude/impolite/treated complainant badly
6	Police failed to keep victim/informant properly informed
7	Police were slow to arrive
8	Other
9	Don’t know
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Warning: these figures indicate the number of cases found in the data file. They cannot be interpreted as summary statistics of the population of interest.

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