Annual Indicators of Victimation and Sense of Insecurity from Surveys Life and Security Framework

The Life and Security Framework Surveys (CVS) were conducted annually between 2007 and 2021, with a sample of 20,000 to 25,000 households, by INSEE in partnership with the National Observatory on Crime and Criminal Response (ONDRP, deleted at the end of 2020) and the Ministry of Internal Security ([SSMSI] [SSMSI] (https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/Qui-sommes-nous), established in 2014), and characterised the “victims” of households and individuals (i.e. the crime of which households and their members may have been victims in the two years preceding the survey) through a multiple analysis: — the measurement of the number of attacks, of households victimised or of victims, of multivictimation; — the rates of filing a complaint; — identification of the profile of victims and perpetrators and the context; — the assessment of material, bodily or psychological consequences; — an analysis of the feelings of insecurity of individuals and their level of satisfaction with the action of the justice system and the security forces. These data are distinct and complementary to those recorded by the national police and gendarmerie, as victims do not always file complaints. Combined, they provide valuable tools for assessing and analysing both delinquency and feeling of insecurity. In order to encourage the opening of data on crime and insecurity, the SSMSI makes available on the open platform French public data 19 annual indicators of victimisation and sense of insecurity relating to metropolitan France and from CVS surveys, which are an indispensable complement to the statistics on crime recorded by the security forces (police and gendarmerie). All statistics from CVS surveys are also available on the SSMSI website: [CVS surveys](https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/L-enquete-Cadre-de-vie-et-securite-CVS) ** Warning:** the 2019 Victims Framework and Safety 2020 survey, scheduled for the second quarter of 2020, could not be conducted by INSEE. As a result of the measures put in place to combat the Covid-19 epidemic, INSEE was forced to interrupt its face-to-face investigations from 16 March and resumed them only from 15 July. Given the length of the questionnaire and the topics covered, it was not possible to switch the collection of the CVS 2020 survey by telephone to the timetable set. The collection of CVS 2021 was prepared and developed in order to adapt to the health situation with the possibility of a face-to-face procurement and an alternative to telephone procurement where the questionnaire was then reduced, in particular with the complete removal of the self-administered part. Developments in the health situation required a collection exclusively by telephone from 19 April to 9 June and a mixed telephone/face-to-face collection from 9 June to 26 June 2021. From 2022 onwards, the national statistical survey Vecu and Ressenti en sécurité (VRS), conducted by the SSMSI, will replace CVS surveys (for more details: [VRS survey](https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/Interstats/L-enquete-Vecu-et-ressenti-en-matiere-de-securite-VRS)) **Last update:** February 2022 **Annual update.**