This report highlights the main findings from Cycle 6 of the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey (NZCVS) conducted between November 2022 and October 2023. The report contains mostly descriptive statistics of trends for key offence types and demographic groups.
NZCVS Key Results 2023 (Cycle 6) [PDF, 5.9 MB]
This report provides more detail and context for some of this year’s notable findings:
NZCVS Key Stories 2023 (Cycle 6) [PDF, 8.6 MB]
These formatted data tables provide more comprehensive coverage of the subjects discussed in the Key Results report, summarising data collected for NZCVS Cycles 1 through 6 (2018-2023). All tables are in Microsoft Excel (xlsx) format and provide information about data accuracy.
NZCVS 2023 (Cycle 6) How much crime [XLSX, 62 KB]
NZCVS 2023 (Cycle 6) Who is experiencing crime [XLSX, 91 KB]
NZCVS 2023 (Cycle 6) Sexual violence and family offences [XLSX, 86 KB]
NZCVS 2023 (Cycle 6) Perceptions of safety [XLSX, 99 KB]
NZCVS 2023 (Cycle 6) Reporting to Police [XLSX, 85 KB]
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 Methodology Report 2023 (Cycle 6) [PDF, 4.3 MB]
This document informs users about the effects on historical NZCVS estimates following the revisions to the survey data and methods. It describes the key improvements and the benefits of implementing these changes.