This report provides an update on BJS?s multiyear effort to improve the efficiency, reliability, and utility of the National Crime Victimization Survey?(NCVS). The effort had three main goals: modernize the organization and content of the NCVS instrument, increase the quality of information collected and efficiency of the instrument flow, and improve the measurement and classification of crime. This summary describes progress on the redesign, including decisions that were informed by a large-scale national field test and upcoming milestones for the redesign?s implementation phase.
Update on the NCVS Instrument Redesign (NCJ 304055) was written by BJS Statisticians Jennifer L. Truman, Ph.D., and Heather Brotsos. The report, related documents, and additional information about BJS?s statistical publications and programs are available on the BJS website at bjs.ojp.gov.
Title: National Crime Victimization Survey Redesign Field Test Topline Report: Comparing Condition 1 and Condition 2 by Interleaving Treatment
Authors: Westat: David Cantor, W. Sherman Edwards, Pamela Giambo, Darby Miller Steiger, Ting Yan, Wendy Hicks, Hanyu Sun, and Jill DeMatteis
Publication date: March 2022
Award numbers: 2013-MU-CX-K054 and 2019-R2-CX-K001
This third-party report was produced by Westat for BJS under award numbers 2013-MU-CX-K054 and 2019-R2-CX-K001. It describes testing efforts to develop and assess a new NCVS instrument. This testing was part of a large-scale multiyear effort to revamp the NCVS core instrument, which was last updated in 1992. The goals of the instrument redesign were to update the content of the survey and increase the efficiency of the data collection. This report details the methodology and findings from a national field test to compare two versions of the core NCVS instrument. It compares performance of the current NCVS instrument and procedures to those from the new instrument.
BJS funds research and reports by other organizations or individuals to foster knowledge in the criminal justice field. These third-party reports are not BJS reports and do not release official government statistics. Please see the full disclaimer for more information.
Title: NCVS Juvenile Testing and Redesign Report
Authors: RTI International: Christine Lindquist, Sarah Cook, Christopher Krebs, Stephanie Zimmer, and Marcus Berzofsky
Publication date: March 2022
Award number: 2020-85-CX-K017
This third-party report was produced by RTI International for BJS under award number 2020-85-CX-K017. It describes secondary data analysis, cognitive interviewing, and a proxy study done under the NCVS Redesign Research and Development Program. These tasks were undertaken to produce knowledge and findings that will help improve NCVS participation and measurement of victimization among youth ages 12 to 17.
BJS funds research and reports by other organizations or individuals to foster knowledge in the criminal justice field. These third-party reports are not BJS reports and do not release official government statistics. Please see the full disclaimer for more information.
Title: Victimization in Different Types of Areas in the United States: Subnational Findings from the National Crime Victimization Survey, 2010?2015
Author: University of Missouri-St. Louis: Janet L. Lauritsen
Publication date: March 2022
This third-party report was produced by the University of Missouri-St. Louis for BJS under an Interagency Personnel Agreement. It describes methods to create ?generic area? typologies based on geographic, social, economic, or demographic characteristics. These generic areas can represent places that are similar to each other based on the characteristics of interest. This report creates generic areas using three geographic indicators currently available in public-use NCVS data: census region, metropolitan area status, and population size for the central cities of metropolitan areas.
BJS funds research and reports by other organizations or individuals to foster knowledge in the criminal justice field. These third-party reports are not BJS reports and do not release official government statistics. Please see the full disclaimer for more information.
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. Doris J. James is the acting director.
For more information on BJS's publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities,?visit?BJS online.
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