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Description & Citation--Study No. 6717

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:6717
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06717
 
Title:British Crime Survey, 1992
 
Principal Investigator(s):Great Britain Home Office Research and Planning Unit
 
Series:British Crime Survey Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:Great Britain Home Office Research and Planning Unit. BRITISH CRIME SURVEY, 1992 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. London, England: Social and Community Planning Research, NOP Market Research Limited [producer], 1993. Colchester, England: ESRC Data Archive/Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributors], 1996. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06717
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The fourth in a series of surveys instituted by the Home Office in 1982, this survey examines levels of victimization in Great Britain and offers attitudinal data on issues relating to crime. The 1992 survey was intended to replicate the 1982, 1984, and 1988 surveys (ICPSR 8672, 8685, and 9850) in methodology and content as much as possible. In 1992, a "core" sample of 10,059 adults along with booster samples of 1,650 ethnic minority adults and 1,350 young people aged 12-15 resident in the same households as adult respondents were interviewed. The 1988 survey had also included an ethnic minority booster sample employing the same sampling method. Respondents were asked a series of screening questions to establish whether they had been the victims of crime during the reference period, and another series of detailed questions about the incidents they reported. Basic descriptive background information, such as sex, age, employment, education, and number of children, was also collected on the respondents and their households. Other information was elicited on fear of crime, contact with the police, lifestyle, and self-reported offending. Part 1, Demographic File, consists of data captured on the Demographic Questionnaire. Parts 2 and 3 represent data collected via Follow-Up Questionnaire A and Follow-Up Questionnaire B, respectively. Each respondent completed one of the two Follow-Up Questionnaires, with all respondents in the ethnic minority booster sample completing Follow-Up Questionnaire A. Part 4, Main File, consists of data from the Main Questionnaire. Each respondent completed a Main Questionnaire that included some attitudinal questions and a large number of screening questions to identify crime victims. Data in Part 5, Victim File, were collected from the Victim Form. Only respondents reporting incidents of victimization on the Main Questionnaire have Victim Forms, with up to four Victim Forms per respondent. The unit of analysis for this collection is the individual.
 
Subject Term(s):crime, crime costs, crime patterns, crime reporting, fear of crime, lifestyles, police citizen interactions, police response, reactions to crime, victimization, victims
 
Geographic Coverage:England, Great Britain, Wales, Global
 
Time Period:1992
 
Date(s) of Collection:January 1992 - June 1992
 
Universe:Individuals aged 16 and over living in private households in England and Wales whose addresses appear in the postal code address file.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:The SAS and SPSS data definition statements provided with this collection are incomplete. SAS Proc Format Statements, SAS Format Statements, and SPSS Value Label Statements are not supplied.
 

Methodology

Sample:Multistage probability sample using the postal code address file as the frame.
 
Data Source:personal interviews
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1996-06-10
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2006-01-18.
 
  2006-01-18 - File CB6717.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Demographic File
  • DS2: Follow-Up A File
  • DS3: Follow-Up B File
  • DS4: Main File
  • DS5: Victim File
  • DS6: SAS Data Definition Statements for Demographic File
  • DS7: SAS Data Definition Statements for Follow-Up A File
  • DS8: SAS Data Definition Statements for Follow-Up B File
  • DS9: SAS Data Definition Statements for Main File
  • DS10: SAS Data Definition Statements for Victim File
 

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