The 2000 Scottish Crime Survey: Overview Report

Appendix A7.1

Public perceptions of crime in Scotland: all Scotland (1999)

	% of respondents saying:
	"crime is an 'extremely' serious problem in Scotland today"	"there is more crime in this area than two years ago"
Male
16-24	14.3	33.2
25-59	24.9	37.1
60 or over	26.7	42.7
Total male	23.7	37.9
Female
16-24	31.2	42.2
25-59	32.3	45.6
60 or over	33.8	46.1
Total female	32.5	45.4
Tenure
Owner occupier	25.1	38.9
Rented from council/ housing association	37.0	49.5
Rented privately	23.3	35.4
Scottish *ACORN group
A	19.8	34.9
B	25.5	36.9
C	16.5	42.0
D	19.4	34.4
E	28.7	45.4
F	37.7	50.3
G	43.6	50.4
H	41.1	46.4
Socio-economic group
A	11.8	38.2
B	18.4	34.4
C1	25.9	40.2
C2	30.4	45.2
D	30.4	45.4
E	46.2	45.6
Building type
House	26.5	40.6
High rise	35.0	52.2
Low rise	38.1	46.0
Tenement	29.9	45.6
Settlement size
Over 1 million	31.4	40.2
100,000-999,999	29.8	43.7
10,000-99,999	30.1	44.0
1,000-9.999	24.2	46.2
Under 1,000	28.9	35.9
TOTAL	28.3	41.8

Notes:

Data analysis based on individual responses to the Main Questionnaire (unweighted n=5,059).
Questions: 'Do you think crime is a problem in Scotland today and if so how serious a problem?' and 'How much crime would you say the crime rate has changed here since two years ago? IN this area (i.e. within about 15 minutes walk from here), would you say there is more, less, or about the same?'.
For explanation of Scottish *ACORN groups see Appendix E.
Source: SCS 2000 (all Scotland weighted data).

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