RT Article
T1 Measuring crime through victimization: some methodological lessons from the ICVS
JF European journal of criminology
VO 17
IS 5
SP 518
OP 539
A1 Ródenas Calatayud, Carmen
A1 Doval, Antonio
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1738747379
AB The objective of this study is to demonstrate that there are design errors in the International Crime Victims Survey (ICVS) that lead to biases in the estimates of victimization rates. This will be verified, firstly, by comparing the crime rate derived from the ICVS microdata with that based on the reference population and, secondly, examining the consequences of two ICVS methodological decisions: the use of individual weights and the re-weighting procedure in accordance with household size. These sample design failures, which generate distorted crime rankings, call for the need to make corrections both in the subsequent waves of the ICVS and in the final design of a future European survey.
K1 Comparative criminology
K1 Crime statistics
K1 ICVS
K1 Statistical bias
K1 Victimization surveys
DO 10.1177/1477370818803048