The Bureau of Justice Statistics has released a National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) dataset on Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSAs) through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. This NCVS data extract contains?
- a household-based file
- a person-based file
- an incident-based file.
These files contain a subset of variables and records from the annual NCVS data files from 2000-2015. The files include records from the 52 MSAs with a 2015 population size of 1 million or more persons and an average annual NCVS sample size of at least 250 persons during the period of 2006-2015. The records included on the MSA data files are not nationally representative of the entire U.S. population age 12 or older. Within each MSA, the household- and person-level weights have been recalibrated so that they are representative of the population of households and persons age 12 or older residing within the MSA for a given year.
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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