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Definitions
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Name and topic
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Name: Victimisation and fear of crime, survey on living conditions
Topic: Social conditions, welfare and crime
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Responsible division
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Division for Income and social welfare statistics
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Definitions of the main concepts and variables
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Exposed to violence : We ask the responents whether they during the last 12 months have been exposed to violence with or without visible marks or injury. Accordingly we ask how many times respondents have been exposed to these kinds of incidents.
Exposed to threats of violence : We ask respondents whether they during the last 12 months have been exposed to threats of violence to the extent that they were scared. Thereafter we ask how many times this has occurred during that period.
Exposed to theft or criminal damage : We ask the respondents whether they during the last 12 months have been exposed to theft or criminal damage, thereafter how many times this has occurred during this period.
Fear of violence or threats of violence : The respondents are asked whether they recently have feared exposure to violence or threats of violence when walking alone in their neighborhood.
Fear of thefts or criminal damage : We ask the respondents whether they recently have been anxious of being exposed to violence or threats when walking alone in their neighborhood.
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Standard classifications
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Register information:
Age
Persons are grouped by age at year-end for the completion of the main part of the interview.
Area of residence
Persons are grouped according to sparsely populated areas or densely populated areas of different size. Sparsely populated areas include clusters of houses with less than 200 inhabitants. Densely populated areas include areas with 200 inhabitants or more, and a distance between houses - as a main rule - not more than 50 meters.
Region
The regions include the following counties:
Oslo and Akershus
Eastern Norway excluding Oslo and Akershus: Østfold, Vestfold, Hedmark, Oppland, Buskerud and Telemark
Agder and Rogaland: Aust-Agder, Vest-Agder and Rogaland
Western Norway: Hordaland, Sogn og Fjordane, Møre and Romsdal
Trøndelag: Sør-Trøndelag and Nord-Trøndelag
Northern Norway: Nordland, Troms and Finnmark.
Family cycle phase
Persons are grouped mainly by age, marital status and whether the person has children. There is a distinction between singles and couples, where couples include both married and cohabitants. The concept single persons do not necessarily refer to persons living alone in the household.
The groups with children consist of persons living with their own child(ren) (including stepchildren and adopted children) aged 0-19 years in the household.
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Additional information
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