Surveying Victims: Options for Conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey

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. "Appendix E: Other Victimization Surveys: International and U.S. State and Local Experience." Surveying Victims: Options for Conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2008.

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Surveying Victims: Options for Conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey

Table E-1 Design Features of Nation-Specific Victimization Surveys

Design Feature	USA^a	Australia^b	Canada^c	England & Wales^d	Sweden^e	Netherlands^f	Scotland^g	Switzerland^h	Irelandⁱ
Sample
Cross-Section	No	Yes	Yes (rotated)	Yes (rotated)	Yes	Yes	Yes (rotated)	Yes	Yes
RDD	No	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	No	No
Clustered							Yes		Yes
Screening
Unified	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Dense cuing	Yes	No	No	No	No		No	No	No
Bounding	Prior Interview	No	No	No	No	No	No	Short/long ref period	No
Reference period	6 mo.	12 mo.	12 mo.	12 mo.	12 mo.	12 mo.	12 mo.	12 mo.	12 mo.
Mode
In-person	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Phone	Yes	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	yes	No
Central CATI	Yes^j	No	Yes	No	No	No	No	Yes	No
Self-administered	No	Yes	No	No	No	Yes	No	No	No
Series	Yes	No	No	Yes	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	No
Free-standing survey	Yes	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	Yes	Yes	No
^a National Crime Victimization Survey. ^b Summarizes three national crime victim surveys; see Carcase (2004). ^c General Social Survey–Victimization. ^d British Crime Survey. ^e Victimization component of annual Survey of Living Conditions. ^f Victim survey conducted by Statistics Netherlands; other victim surveys are conducted by the police, as described by Bijleveld and Smit (2004). ^g Scottish Crime Survey; for 2004, the survey was renamed the Scottish Crime and Victimisation Survey. ^h Swiss crime survey, which was used as a basis for the International Crime Victimization Survey; see Killias et al. (2004). ⁱ Crime and Victimization component of Quarterly National Household Survey; see Central Statistics Office (2007). ^j Calls from Census Bureau CATI centers to be eliminated from NCVS in 2007. NOTES: RDD, random digit dialing. CATI, computer-assisted telephone interviewing. SOURCE: Adapted from Lynch (2006:Table 2) and Farrington et al. (2004).