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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29.14 Reasons for not reporting killing to the police (v251)

Data file: VCS 1998 Main_v1

Overview

Valid: 16

Invalid: 3883

Type: Discrete

Decimal: 0

Start: 333

End: 334

Width: 2

Range: -

Format:

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Categories

Value	Category
0
1	Police arrived before it could be reported
2	Believed police would fail to solve the crime
3	Police inappropriate/not necessary
4	Police are corrupt
5	Fear of reprisals by police
6	Fear of reprisals by the offender
7	Fear of being blamed for the crime
8	Previous bad experiences when dealing with the police
9	Police are inaccessible/too far away
10	Could not identify the perpetrator
11	Other
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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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