The International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS) was initiated in 1987 by a group of European criminologists with expertise in national crime surveys. The survey was set up to produce estimates of victimisation that can be used for international comparison.
The International Crime Victim Survey (ICVS) is the most far-reaching programme of standardised sample surveys to look at householders' experience with crime, policing, crime prevention and feelings of unsafety in a large number of countries and includes information on:
There have so far been five main rounds of the ICVS. After the first round in 1989 the surveys were repeated in 1992, 1996, and 2000 and 2004/2005. By the end of 2005 over 140 surveys had been done in over 78 different countries (in 37 countries nationwide).
Longitudinal (cross-national) survey: approximately once every three/four years
Codebooks
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Questionnaires
download 2000 Cati questionnaire in pdf
download 2000 Face to Face questionnaire in pdf
download the older questionnaires in pdf
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