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Community Survey 2016 - IPUMS Subset

South Africa, 2016
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ZAF_2016_PHC_v01_M_v7.5_A_IPUMS
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Statistics South Africa, IPUMS
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Experienced a house breaking in the past 12 months (ZA2016A_CRIMEHBRK)

Data file: ZAF2016_PHC-H-H

Overview

Type: Discrete
Start: 302
End: 302
Width: 1
Range: -
Format: Numeric

Questions and instructions

Literal question
<span class="h2">4 Housing, household goods, services and crime and agricultural activities </span></p>

<p>Now, I am going to ask you some questions related to housing, household goods and services, crime and agricultural activities for this particular household.</p>

<p><span class="em">Crime experienced by the household </span></p>

<p>[4.84] In the past 12 months, did the household or any member of this household been a victim of the following crime(s) in South Africa?</p>
<div class="i1">3 Housebreaking/burglary at a residential premises [gaining unauthorized access to a dwelling with the intent to commit theft or when actually committing theft-there is no contact between victim(s) and perpetrator(s)]</div><div class="i2">[] Yes<br />[] No</div>
Categories
Value Category
1 Yes
2 No
8 Unknown
9 NIU (not in universe)
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.

Description

Definition
This variable indicates whether any member of the household has been victim of house breaking in the past 12 months.
Universe
South Africa 2016: Households that were victim of a crime in the past 12 months [discrepancies: type I none; type II 0.8%]

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