A number of resources and downloads are available to help you access results from the New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey (NZCASS), interpret findings, understand the research and plan what data you will ask the ministry for.
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This report summarises the main findings from the NZCASS 2014 for a general audience. It covers the six NZCASS research objectives below:
This report does not present all the information that is collected in the NZCASS. This report doesn’t discuss the technical aspects of the research in detail (read about the technical aspects in the technical manual).
Main findings report [PDF, 12 MB]
This pamphlet summarises the main findings from the NZCASS 2014 in a diagram.
Main findings - summary pamphlet [PDF, 514 KB]
Pamphlets have been produced on particular topics.
Factsheet: Public perceptions of crime [PDF, 212 KB]
Factsheet: Victims' experiences and needs [PDF, 355 KB]
A range of data tables give key statistics including (but not limited to) numbers of offences, incidence rates, numbers of adults victimised, prevalence rates, factors of victimisation, and statistical error. These are static, formatted data tables presented in Microsoft Excel.
Download the Extent and nature data tables [XLSX, 827 KB]
Download the Reporting crime data tables [XLSX, 809 KB]
Download the Who experiences crime data tables [XLSX, 907 KB]
Download the Victims' experiences and needs data tables [XLSX, 850 KB]
Download the Public perceptions data tables [XLSX, 851 KB]
The NZCASS questionnaire is a long and complex document. An infographic shows how the questionnaire is structured.
If you are interested in assessing what data or information is available to help answer a research question, please refer to the Data items (variables) list.
Read more about the questions asked in the NZCASS on the webpage ‘What questions are asked?’
Download the 2014 NZCASS questionnaire [PDF, 1.2 MB]
A complete list of data items (variables) that are available for use shows researchers and analysts what information is available. They can then plan their data requests. The list will also help people who are interested in technical aspects of NZCASS analysis and reporting.
Data items (variables) list [XLS, 373 KB]
The technical manual describes in detail the design and methods used in the NZCASS. The technical manual includes information about (but is not limited to) sampling, questionnaire and incident selection, fieldwork processes and statistics, offence coding, data processing, weigthing, imputation, standards and classifications.
Technical manual [PDF, 5.3 MB]
A number of reports and papers were produced in previous years. As research and analysis practices have developed over time, some statistics and findings published as part of previous reports and papers have become obsolete. Only information that is still considered current has been made available on these webpages. If you want a copy of one of the reports listed below, please contact us.
This report presents the main findings of the 2009 survey and compares them to the results from the 2006 survey. The report covers the nature and extent of crime, reporting crime, the concentration of crime, confrontational crime, burglary and vehicle crime, the impact of victimisation, perceptions of neighbourhood crime and disorder, perceptions of safety and victimisation risk, and perceptions of the criminal justice system.
Core content from this report has been updated as part of the 2014 main findings report.
(First published December 2010 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 978-0-478-29090-X)
This is an infographic summary of the main 2009 findings. The booklet opens out into an A3 poster.
(First published December 2010 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 978-0-478-29092-6)
This paper looks at people’s experiences of ‘confrontational crime’, where the offender was their partner or a person well-known to them. Confrontational crime includes assaults and threats to an individual or their property. It does not include psychological or economic abuse, such as insults or withholding money.
The framework for analysing and reporting violent interpersonal offences was updated in 2014 to be more useful to people using the information. The term ‘confrontational crime’ was not used in 2014.
(First published June 2011 by the Ministry of Justice.)
Read more about interpersonal violence.
This paper summarises consistent findings between the NZCASS 2009 and national-level victimisation surveys in other countries, as well as the International Crime Victims Survey. It also summarises the methodological and design differences that make it hard to directly compare statistics.
(First published December 2010 by the Ministry of Justice.)
This paper summarises the nature and extent of multiple and repeat victimisation in New Zealand, drawing on the 2009 NZCASS. A multiple victim is defined as a person who experienced more than one offence within a 12 month period, regardless of the type of offence, whereas a repeat victim is a person who experiences the same type of offence more than once within a 12-month period (for example, two or more burglaries).
Core content from this report has been updated as part of the 2014 Main findings report.
(First published June 2011 by the Ministry of Justice.)
This report describes the design and methods of the 2009 NZCASS. The report includes information on sampling methodology, questionnaire design and incident selection, fieldwork methods and interviews, checks and audits, response rates and interview durations, classifications and coding, survey weights, imputation and variance estimation.
This information has been updated for the 2014 NZCASS in the section on technical information.
(First published December 2010 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 978-0-478-29091-8)
This report presents the main findings of the 2006 survey. Due to changes in the survey design, comparisons with previous victimisation surveys was limited.
The report covers the nature and extent of crime, the distribution of risk, reporting to Police and confidence in the criminal justice system.
(First published April 2007 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 0-478-29028-4)
Safer communities’ was one high-level outcome shared across New Zealand’s justice sector at the time of NZCASS 2006. This report provides some findings that inform that outcome and covers crime in public places, concern about crime and neighbourhood support.
(First published December 2007 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 978-0-478-29043-8)
This report presents results from questions in the 2006 NZCASS about what can be loosely grouped under a label of ‘electronic crime’. The questions were incorporated as a preliminary test of the extent of e-crime in New Zealand. They covered five forms of computer misuse, four forms of mobile phone misuse, and two forms of identity theft (that is, the use of credit cards for theft, and the use of personal information to commit theft, fraud or some other crime).
(First published December 2007 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 978-0-478-29042-X)
The New Zealand Crime and Safety Survey 2006: The experience of e-crime [PDF, 230 KB]
The results presented in this report aimed to help improve the resilience of those at risk of victimisation, and support victims of crime. It provided valuable baseline information, and results from future surveys will be used to assess progress over the long term. The report gives a comprehensive picture of how victims were affected by crime, what response they got from the Police if they reported offences to them, how many victims had contact with agencies in a position to help them, and what needs they felt remained unmet. The report also covers how aware New Zealanders in general are of community services for victims.
(First published April 2008 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 978-0-478-29046-2)
This report presents results from the 2006 NZCASS that look at the experiences of sole-parent households as victims of crime. It is the Ministry of Justice’s contribution to a cross-departmental research programme into sole parenthood in New Zealand (led by the Ministry of Social Development). The main focus of the report is on aspects of victimisation risk among sole-parent households compared with other households with children (the nearest comparator group). It also draws together other results from NZCASS 2006 to look at how the two family groups compared regarding:
(First published October 2009 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 978-0-478-29076-4)
This report presents results from the 2006 NZCASS that look at the experiences of Maori as victims of crime. This report covers the extent and nature of Maori victimisation, confrontational offences by partners and others well-known to the victim, the distribution of victimisation risk for Maori, factors that best define Maori victimisation, and community safety and confidence in the criminal justice system.
(First published October 2009 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 978-0-478-29077-2)
Read information about Maori victimisation that includes the results from NZCASS 2014.
This report from the 2006 NZCASS looks at what best explains why some social groups face higher victimisation risk than others. The report covers theories of victimisation risk, burglary, vehicle crime and confrontational crime.
(First published October 2009 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 978-0-478-29058-6)
This report describes the design and methods of the 2006 NZCASS. The report includes information on sampling methodology, questionnaire design and incident selection, fieldwork methods and interviews, checks and audits, response rates and interview durations, classifications and coding, survey weights, imputation and variance estimation.
(First published February 2008 by the Ministry of Justice.)
This information has been updated for the 2014 NZCASS in the section on technical information.
This report presents the findings from the second New Zealand National Survey of Crime Victims (NZNSCV), which was conducted in 2001. Like the 1996 NZNSCV, this survey interviewed a random sample of the population aged 15 and over and asked them not only about the extent to which they had been the victims of certain offences since 1 January 2000 but also about the circumstances and impact of those offences and their response to them, as well as a range of other victim-related information.
(First published May 2003 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 0-478-20180-X)
This report presents the findings from the first NZNSCV, which was conducted in 1996.
(First published August 1997 by the Ministry of Justice. ISBN 0-478-20127-3)
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