Synthetic Dataset of Crimes in England and Wales

This resource includes the necessary codes to generate a synthetic dataset of all crimes that occurred in each output area in England and Wales in 2011. Counts of violence, property crime and criminal damage can be generated, and three different approaches to counting crime are possible - synthetic data of all crimes, synthetic data of police recorded crimes, synthetic data of survey estimated crimes.

Having generated the crime counts at output area, they can be aggregated to any spatial scale of interest.

Crime counts are synthesised by predicting invidual victimisation propensities using the Crime Survey for England and Wales (2011), then mapping these propensities on to individuals (and households) based on population counts from the UK census.