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THE 2000 SCOTTISH CRIME SURVEY: OVERVIEW REPORT

Appendix A Supplementary Tables

A1 Appendix A contains a series of technical tables providing additional information to that presented in each of the chapters of this report. These tables are by no means exhaustive, as it would be impractical to provide a detailed breakdown of all the data collected by the SCS. Instead, they are intended to supplement the main findings from the survey for those interested in examining them in more detail.

A2 Appendix A is split into sections numbered A3, A4 etc, which generally indicates that the appendices refer to Chapter 3, Chapter 4 and so on. The appendices relating to Chapter 3 provide mainly technical information relating to victimisation rates, SCS estimates of crimes and comparisons of SCS estimates with police recorded crime statistics, and levels of reporting to the police. The tables relating to subsequent chapters predominantly provide a detailed breakdown of information by the key socio-demographic variables collected by the survey.

A3 The tables in Appendix A are very similar to those in Appendix A of the Main Findings report for the 1993 and 1996 SCS. This facilitates comparisons between the three surveys. One difference is that in the 1993 report, the socio-demographic variable 'Scottish *Acorn risk group' was used whereas in this report, the socio-demographic variable of Scottish *Acorn group (see Appendix E) was used. This allows analysis by particular geo-demographic groups rather than by the risk of victimisation. Another difference between the two reports in that the 1996 and 2000 reports refer to 'settlement size' which is a more accurate description of the variable previously referred to as 'population density'. Rather than categorising an address simply by the population of the town or village it is in, the variable takes account of the population of the wider 'urban spread'. Examples of areas falling into different settlement size categories are given below:

Appendix A2.1

Estimated number of offences in Scotland in 1992, 1995 and 1999: crime survey estimates

Notes:
1. Estimated numbers of offences for 1999 were calculated by multiplying victimisation rates for household offences by 218.5583 (the number of households in Scotland divided by 10,000) and for personal offences by 411.0956 (the number of adults aged 16 or over in Scotland divided by 10,000).
2. The categories 'total comparable crimes' and 'all survey crimes' are composite ones which include crimes committed against people and against households. The rates for these categories are based on adults aged 16 or over, which over-inflates them. As it is not possible to arrive at a single complex standard error for these categories, significance tests have not been carried out.
3. The significance of changes has been calculated on the basis of rates taking population into account. Double-starred differences are significant at the 95% level (2-tailed). Single-starred differences are significant at the 90% level (2-tailed). Percentage changes are based on unrounded numbers.
4. The category 'theft in a dwelling', is included under 'other household theft'.
5. 'Attempted theft of/from a motor vehicle' is now classified as a distinct offence, whereas in previous reports it was included in 'other household theft'.
6. For the distinction between crimes which are 'comparable with police' and 'other survey crimes', see Appendix F.
7. Source: SCS 1993 (all Scotland, weighted data), n=5,030; SCS 1996 (all Scotland, weighted data), n=5,045; SCS 2000 (all Scotland, weighted data), n=5,059.

Appendix A3.1

Estimated number of offences in southern and central Scotland in 1981, 1987, 1992, 1995 and 1999: crime survey estimates

Notes:
1. Estimated numbers of offences for 1999 were calculated by multiplying victimisation rates for household offences by 179.4870 (the number of households in central and southern Scotland divided by 10,000) and for personal offences by 346.9024 (the number of adults aged 16 or over in central and southern Scotland divided by 10,000).
2. The categories 'total comparable crimes' and 'all survey crimes' are composite ones which include crimes committed against people and against households. The rates for these categories are based on adults aged 16 or over, which over-inflates them. As it is not possible to arrive at a single complex standard error for these categories, significance tests have not been carried out.
3. The significance of changes has been calculated on the basis of rates taking population into account. Double-starred differences are significant at the 95% level (2-tailed). Single-starred differences are significant at the 90%
level (2-tailed). Percentage changes are based on unrounded numbers.
4. Because of changes to the classification of thefts from the person between the 1982 and 1987 surveys, significance tests have not been carried out for this category for the period 1981-99.
5. The category 'theft in a dwelling', is included under 'other household theft'.
6. 'Attempted theft of/from a motor vehicle' is now classified as a distinct offence, whereas in previous reports it was included in 'other household theft'. Figures for 'attempted theft of/from a motor vehicle' and 'other household theft' are therefore not available for 1981 and 1987.
7. For the distinction between crimes which are 'comparable with police' and 'other survey crimes', see Appendix F.
8. Source: BCS (Scotland) 1982 and 1988, SCS 1993 (central and southern Scotland, weighted data) n=4,265; SCS 1996 (central and southern Scotland, weighted data) n=4,292; SCS 2000 (central and southern Scotland, weighted data) n=4,274.

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