This report provides detailed insights and analysis of the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey (NZCVS) Cycle 4 results. The report contains mostly descriptive statistics. It does not include analysis of relationships between variables.
NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21) Core Report [PDF, 3.1 MB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21) Key Findings
This document summarises key findings of the NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21).
NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21) Key Findings Booklet [PDF, 908 KB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21) Data Tables
These documents summarise data collected by NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21) in Microsoft Excel (xlsx) format and provide information about data accuracy.
NZCVS Cycle 4 Section 3 - How much crime is there in New Zealand? [XLSX, 101 KB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 Section 4 - Who is experiencing crime? [XLSX, 816 KB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 Section 5 - Sexual violence and offences by family members [XLSX, 419 KB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 Section 6 - Impact of COVID-19 pandemic [XLSX, 205 KB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 Section 7 - Reporting to the Police [XLSX, 176 KB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 Section 8 - Distribution of crime [XLSX, 224 KB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 Section 9 - Crime scene and consequences [XLSX, 107 KB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 Section 10 - Perceptions of safety [XLSX, 300 KB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21) Methodology Report
The Methodology Report describes in detail the design and methods used in the NZCVS. This Report includes, but is not limited to, detailed information on NZCVS research objectives, sampling, questionnaire development and testing, fieldwork processes and statistics, offence coding, data processing, weighting, imputation and producing analyses.
NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21) Methodology Report [PDF, 5.1 MB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21) Topical report
These reports are based on the NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21) data and focused on specific prioritised themes.
Controlling Behaviours. This report examines the prevalence of controlling behaviours in the context of family or intimate relationships in a 12-month period. It explores who uses controlling behaviours to harm, the impacts of these controlling behaviours, and the situations where they occur as recorded in Cycle 4 (2020/21) of the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey (NZCVS).
NZCVS topical report - Controlling behaviours [PDF, 1.2 MB]
NZCVS report tables - Controlling behaviours and help seeking data tables [XLSX, 512 KB]
Other Resources
NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21) Core Report - Frequently Asked Questions [DOCX, 43 KB]
NZCVS Cycle 4 (2020-21) Core Report - Media release [DOCX, 18 KB]