National Crime Victimization Survey, [United States], 2016

In October 2019, NACJD released a revised set of 2016 NCVS Public-Use Files. The National Crime Victimization Survey, [United States], 2016: Revised Version (ICPSR 37296) data collection contains the official 2016 NCVS data and replaces the previously published National Crime Victimization Survey, 2016 (ICPSR 36828) Public-Use Files. The initial files remain available for research purposes. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Series, previously called the National Crime Surveys (NCS), has been collecting data on personal and household victimization through an ongoing survey of a nationally-representative sample of residential addresses since 1973. The NCVS was designed with four primary objectives: (1) to develop detailed information about the victims and consequences of crime, (2) to estimate the number and types of crimes not reported to the police, (3) to provide uniform measures of selected types of crimes, and (4) to permit comparisons over time and types of areas. The survey categorizes crimes as "personal" or "property." Personal crimes include rape and sexual attack, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, and purse-snatching/pocket-picking, while property crimes include burglary, theft, motor vehicle theft, and vandalism. Each respondent is asked a series of screen questions designed to determine whether she or he was victimized during the six-month period preceding the first day of the month of the interview. A "household respondent" is also asked to report on crimes against the household as a whole (e.g., burglary, motor vehicle theft). The data include type of crime, month, time, and location of the crime, relationship between victim and offender, characteristics of the offender, self-protective actions taken by the victim during the incident and results of those actions, consequences of the victimization, type of property lost, whether the crime was reported to police and reasons for reporting or not reporting, and offender use of weapons, drugs, and alcohol. Basic demographic information such as age, race, gender, and income is also collected, to enable analysis of crime by various subpopulations. This version of the NCVS, referred to as the collection year, contains records from interviews conducted in the 12 months of the given year.

于2019年10月，中国国家犯罪司法研究所（NACJD）发布了2016年国家犯罪受害者调查（NCVS）的修订版公共使用文件。该修订版（ICPSR 37296）数据集包含了2016年的官方NCVS数据，并取代了先前发布的《2016年国家犯罪受害者调查公共使用文件》（ICPSR 36828）。初始文件仍可供研究之用。国家犯罪受害者调查系列（NCVS），此前被称为国家犯罪调查（NCS），自1973年起便通过对全国代表性住宅地址样本的持续调查，收集个人和家庭受害情况的数据。NCVS的设计旨在实现四个主要目标：（1）详尽地收集有关犯罪受害者和犯罪后果的信息，（2）估算未向警方报告的犯罪数量和类型，（3）提供选定类型犯罪的统一衡量标准，（4）允许对时间跨度和不同区域类型进行比较。调查将犯罪分为“个人犯罪”或“财产犯罪”。个人犯罪包括强奸和性攻击、抢劫、重伤害和轻伤害、抢夺和扒窃，而财产犯罪包括盗窃、汽车盗窃和破坏公物。每位受访者将被询问一系列筛选问题，以确定其在访谈月份的第一天之前的六个月内是否成为受害者。家庭受访者还被要求报告针对整个家庭的犯罪（例如，盗窃、汽车盗窃）。数据包括犯罪类型、月份、时间、地点、受害者和犯罪者之间的关系、犯罪者特征、受害者在事件中采取的自我保护措施及其结果、受害后果、财产损失类型、犯罪是否报告给警方以及报告或不报告的原因，以及犯罪者使用武器、毒品和酒精的情况。此外，还收集了基本的人口统计信息，如年龄、种族、性别和收入，以便对犯罪进行各种子群体的分析。本版NCVS，即收集年份，包含了该年度12个月份的访谈记录。