CONCLUSION
Measuring crime victimisation accurately within the community is a challenging task. Throughout this chapter the issues associated with data collection were briefly discussed and it was acknowledged that no single data source is able to comprehensively cover all facets of crime victimisation in the community. Instead, data from both administrative and survey data sources are useful to provide information about particular aspects of victimisation. The ABS maintains two administrative data sources in relation to crime victimisation and four surveys containing crime victimisation information. Each data source produces different results due to the different areas of focus and methodologies employed in collecting the data.
The next chapter explores the differences between the data from different sources in greater detail by using a working example that compares the Crime Victimisation Survey data with police recorded statistics as collected for the Recorded Crime – Victims collection.
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