NCJ Number
96098
Date Published
1983
Length
114 pages
Annotation
This report on the Cities Sample Commercial Victimization Survey, 1972-75, contains the codebook, documentation, data collection description, a survey overview, a description of the survey files, the questionnaire, and guidelines for using the tape files.
Abstract
The commercial victimization surveys, restricted to burglary and robbery incidents, include all types of commercial establishments as well as political, cultural, and religious organizations. The survey includes a series of questions about the business -- type, size, form of ownership, insurance, security, and break-in and robbery characteristics. Time and place, weapon, injury, entry evidence, offender characteristics, and stolen property data are provided for each incident. A multistage cluster sample design was used to collect the data. Both victimized and nonvictimized establishments in 26 cities were interviewed during 1972, 1973, and 1974; 13 were reinterviewed in 1975. The data are contained in 39 hierarchical data files, 1 city per year; there are 166 variables for the 1,059-8,154 cases of combined business and incident records.