This technical report compares the effect on victimization rates of old and new methodology used in the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), a major source of national statistics on crimes and victims. In the mid-1970's, the National Academy of Sciences reviewed the NCVS and identified possible improvements in survey methodology and scope. BJS then sponsored a research consortium with several agencies, including the Bureau of the Census, to investigate the issues raised and began a collaborative survey redesign effort in the late 1970's to improve the survey's accuracy and utility. From January 1992 through June 1993, half the sample was surveyed with the new method and half with the old to measure the effect on victimization rates. This report compares the two methods.
See the related document Criminal Victimization, 1973-95.
Similar Publications
- Testing Gender-Differentiated Models of the Mechanisms Linking Polyvictimization and Youth Offending: Numbing and callousness versus dissociation and borderline traits
- Interpersonal Violence Victimization Among College-Attending and Non-College-Attending Emerging Adults
- Examining the Dynamics of Serious Violent Incidents Among Inner-City, Adolescent, Public School Students in Atlanta, Georgia (From Trends, Risks, and Interventions in Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the Third Annual Spring Symposium of the Homicide Resear