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Commercial Victimization Surveys

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The agency conducted these surveys to obtain current and reliable measures of burglary and robbery in establishments in the United States.

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This survey was conducted as part of the National Crime Survey Program. The agency arranged for the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research to prepare the data and documentation for public use.

This series contains data from a sample of metropolitan areas and from a national sample. Included are all types of commercial establishm ents as well as political, cultural, nonprofit and religious organizations. The surveys include characteristics about the crime victims, such as form of ownership and operation, size and type of business, insurance, crime prevention and security systems and break - in and robbery characteristics.

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Other data include time and place of the incident, weapon involved, injuries, entry evidence, offender characteristics, and stolen property itemization. Data on both victimized and nonvictimized establishments in 26 different cities were collected during 1972, 1973, and 1974. In the 1975 survey, data from the 13 cities surveyed during 1972 and 1973 were collected again.

For the national sample, survey data were collected by calendar quarter for four quarters in 1973 - 1976 and for two quarters in 1977. This data comprises government records extracted from the Archival Research Catalog (ARC). See the ARC catalog entry for this series for more information on this data and how to order it.

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