The 2000 Scottish Crime Survey: Overview Report

Appendix A7.4

Public anxieties about becoming a victim of crime: all Scotland (1999)

	Ever worry about you or someone you live with becoming a victim of crime (%)	% of respondents 'very worried' about:
		Having their home broken into	being mugged or robbed	being assaulted or attacked
Male
16-24	32.4	5.6	5.5	6.9
25-59	48.5	9.3	4.2	4.3
60 or over	38.6	8.2	7.3	4.9
Total male	43.8	8.5	5.1	4.8
Female
16-24	53.3	6.4	11.1	13.9
25-59	57.2	16.1	16.6	17.3
60 or over	36.5	14.0	16.6	14.6
Total female	51.5	14.2	15.9	16.1
Tenure
Owner occupier	48.2	9.2	8.5	8.3
Rented from council/ housing association	48.2	17.7	17.2	17.3
Rented privately	40.1	5.6	3.6	5.6
Scottish *ACORN group
A	42.7	6.1	6.1	6.3
B	46.6	9.6	9.9	8.9
C	37.8	3.5	0.3	-
D	47.6	6.2	5.3	6.8
E	46.3	13.9	12.7	13.3
F	53.3	18.2	16.8	17.0
G	39.4	16.5	16.0	13.8
H	63.0	15.7	13.6	13.4
Socio-economic group
A	45.6	10.6	4.3	5.1
B	46.0	6.1	6.8	5.8
C1	47.9	7.9	7.3	8.2
C2	53.3	13.3	11.6	11.3
D	47.3	14.9	14.5	13.4
E	39.0	19.5	18.7	19.5
Building type
House	46.9	10.9	10.2	9.7
High rise	58.9	12.2	11.9	14.5
Low rise	51.3	17.1	15.2	18.4
Tenement	48.3	10.7	10.4	10.6
Settlement size
Over 1 million	53.1	10.9	10.3	9.6
100,000-999,999	49.9	11.6	11.2	11.7
10,000-99,999	45.9	14.8	13.2	13.2
1,000-9.999	46.6	9.0	8.7	8.8
Under 1,000	26.2	8.1	7.2	8.6
TOTAL	47.5	11.4	10.7	10.6

Notes:

Data analysis for 'ever worry about you or someone you live with being a victim of crime' based on individual responses to Main Questionnaire version B. Data analysis of all other questions based on individual responses to the Main Questionnaire.
Questions: 'Do you ever worry about the possibility that you or anyone else who lives with you might be the victim of a crime?" and "could you tell me how worried you are about...?".
For explanation of Scottish *ACORN groups see Appendix E.
Source: SCS 2000 (all Scotland weighted data), respondents to main B questionnaire (n=2,542).

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