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The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Knowledge Corner provides quick tips and explanations for NCVS data users on a variety of topics. In this video, BJS Statistician Susannah Tapp, PhD, describes item nonresponse in the NCVS. Item nonresponse results in missing data. She discusses the four missing data codes used in the NCVS: residue, out of universe, item invalid until, and item invalid after. For more information, please visit https://bjs.ojp.gov/programs/ncvs or email us at [email protected].

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Knowledge Corner provides quick tips and explanations for NCVS data users on a variety of topics. In this video, BJS Statistician Susannah Tapp, PhD, looks at person and household noninterviews in the NCVS. Household noninterviews occur when no one from a selected household participates in the NCVS. There are three types of household noninterviews – Type A, Type B, and Type C.

Listen as Director Alexis R. Piquero, PhD, provides 2022 end-of-year remarks. 

“It has been an exciting four months since I had the honor of being appointed by President Biden to serve as the director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Not a day has gone by that I have not enjoyed every minute of it. Why you may ask?” Watch now.

The webinar provides information on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) measures within BJS’s survey data collections, including methodological discussions and statistical estimates from published BJS reports. Learn more about—

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Knowledge Corner provides quick tips and explanations for NCVS data users on a variety of topics. In this video, BJS Statistician Rachel Morgan, PhD, focuses on weighting the NCVS data. She briefly discusses sample weights and focuses primarily on NCVS-specific weights that need to be applied to the NCVS data to make the data representative of the U.S. population of households or persons age 12 or older. The NCVS data files include household, person, incident, and victimization weights.

The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) Knowledge Corner provides quick tips and explanations for NCVS data users on a variety of topics. In this video, BJS Statistician Jennifer Truman, PhD, provides an overview of the NCVS data file structure. For more information, please visit https://bjs.ojp.gov/programs/ncvs or email us at [email protected].