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Catalogue description British Crime Survey: 1998 dataset
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| Reference: | HO 400/7 |
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| Title: | British Crime Survey: 1998 dataset |
| Description: |
This dataset consists of data gathered during the 1998 British Crime Survey which was conducted by Social and Community Planning Research (SCPR), a non-profit social research institute, on behalf of the Crime and Criminal Justice Unit of the Home Office's Research and Statistics Directorate.
In accordance with usual BCS practice, the names and addresses of interviewees do not form part of the dataset, and would not have been transferred to the Home Office by SCPR. The dataset consists of anonymised data derived from interviews with the core sample. Unlike preceding and subsequent BCS surveys, the 1998 edition of the BCS did not include an ethnic minority booster sample of Black and Asian respondents, or any other sample beyond the core sample. The overall subject coverage was broadly the same as other BCS editions, except that questions relating to household fires (present in the survey since 1988) were not included. Most of the information in the dataset consists of respondents' answers to survey questions. The focus of the survey was respondents' experiences of household and personal crimes from 1 January 1997 up to the date of the interview. Other aspects of the survey had different reference periods (e.g. the Sexual Victimisation Self-completion section asked about incidents experienced by the respondent since age 16), or no reference period (e.g. attitudinal questions). Respondents' answers could take the form of yes/no answers, responses from a wider choice of options, or the selection of a number from within a defined range. In some cases interviewers had to record a response in the interviewee's own words; the fields and the questions relating to these responses are referred to as"open-ended". This was done in cases where a respondent's answer in a related field was coded as"other" by the interviewer. The actual response was then recorded verbatim in an"open-ended" field (in the dataset, this data is held in the OpenVictim and OpenNonVictim tables). Also in the category of"open-ended" responses are the descriptions which respondents who completed one or more victim forms were asked to supply, describing the incident in their own words. These descriptions - held in the DescVictim table in the dataset - were later used to classify offences. The dataset consists of 12 tables. |
| Date: | 1998 |
| Held by: | The National Archives, Kew |
| Former reference in The National Archives: | CRDA/2/DS/7 |
| Legal status: | Public Record(s) |
| Closure status: | Open Document, Open Description |
| Access conditions: | Open on Transfer |
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