FAQs - NZCVS Cycle 3 [pdf, 252 KB]
...the incident as a crime reporting rate to the Police was almost 3 times higher (22%). How did the COVID lockdowns affect the Survey? Survey interviews were suspended from 21 March to 2 July 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. They were paused in Auckland from 12 August to 2 September 2020 during a further outbreak. Interviewing continued later into the year than planned and achieved a lower number of responses than in previous cycles: 7,425 instead of 8,000. Nonetheless, a high re...