Datasets now available: National Crime Victimization Survey, 2019 and National Crime Victimization Survey, Concatenated File, 1992-2019

The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released two datasets on criminal victimization through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD). The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the nation's primary source of information on criminal victimization. It collects information on—

• nonfatal personal crimes (rape or sexual assault, robbery, aggravated and simple assault, and personal larceny (purse-snatching and pick-pocketing))
• household property crimes (burglary/trespassing, motor-vehicle theft, and other types of theft).

The NCVS is administered to persons age 12 or older from a nationally representative sample of U.S. households. The survey collects data on both crimes reported and not reported to police.

Access the 2019 dataset →

Access the concatenated 1992-2019 dataset →

The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Jeffrey H. Anderson is the director.

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