This report highlights the main findings from Cycle 7 of the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey (NZCVS) conducted between October 2023 and October 2024. The report contains mostly descriptive statistics of trends for key offence types and demographic groups.
NZCVS Key Results 2024 (Cycle 7) [PDF, 7.1 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 7 (2018-2024). All tables are in Microsoft Excel (xlsx) format and provide information about data accuracy.
NZCVS 2024 (Cycle 7) How much crime [XLSX, 64 KB]
NZCVS 2024 (Cycle 7) Who is experiencing crime [XLSX, 89 KB]
NZCVS 2024 (Cycle 7) Sexual violence and family offences [XLSX, 83 KB]
NZCVS 2024 (Cycle 7) Perception of Safety [XLSX, 101 KB]
NZCVS 2024 (Cycle 7) Reporting to Police [XLSX, 82 KB]
The long-format files produced for the NZCVS provide comprehensive and detailed coverage of most questions from NZCVS Cycles 1 to 7 (2018–2024) and pooled data (Cycles 1 to 7 combined). The files also include more detailed information about data accuracy. All files are in comma-delimited (.csv) format.
NZCVS Instructions for Long-format Files [PDF, 1.8 MB]
NZCVS Data Dictionary [XLSX, 58 KB]
tb04_standardisedrate [ZIP, 244 KB]
tb05_nonreportingreason [ZIP, 2.6 MB]
tb06_crimedistribution_household [ZIP, 12 MB]
tb06_crimedistribution_person [ZIP, 22 MB]
tb07_victimexperience [ZIP, 11 MB]
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 2024 Methodology Report (Cycle 7) [PDF, 4.1 MB]
The NZCVS Cycle 7 Questionnaire outlines all the questions presented to respondents in the survey between October 2023 and October 2024. It also explains the survey logic used to determine which questions were asked. This questionnaire also includes the questions from the NZCVS Police Module.
NZCVS 2024 Questionnaire (Cycle 7) [PDF, 1.3 MB]
Other Resources