Home Security Precautions, New South Wales
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NAME OF ORGANISATION The Home Security Precautions survey is a one-off survey conducted in October 1999 as a supplement to the Monthly Population Survey. The survey provides information on aspects of Home Security in NSW households and it aims to present information which identifies the extent of responsibility households take for their own safety.
Topics covered include: the presence and use of a range of home security devices; reasons for installing home security items; estimated expenditure on home security; and for households with no security for their home, reasons for not obtaining security. The purpose of the survey is to investigate the extent of, and motivation for, usage of security precautions by households. Crime reduction is a key priority of NSW Police Service with approximately 10% of resources dedicated to this. Information obtained from this survey would be used to analyse the extent of responsibility households take for their own security and the effect of socio-economic differences on the level of security precautions taken.
Only one schedule will be completed for each household selected. Information pertaining to that household will be collected from any responsible adult aged 18 years and over. Key areas of interest include:
SCOPE Scope: All households in private dwellings in NSW Coverage: Standard Labour Force coverage rules
The following are exclusions on coverage for the labour force:
Information was collected by either face-to-face or telephone interview from one responsible adult per household. This survey was conducted using seven-eighths of the full sample of private dwellings in New South Wales that were included in the MPS. Conceptual framework The collection was conducted as a supplement to the ABS Monthly Population Survey (MPS) in October 1999. Information was collected from households in private dwellings throughout New South Wales. As well as the standard MPS output, information collected includes:
Demographic Dwelling characteristics Home Security Items Blocks of Flats/apartments Whether block of flats has: Home Security Items Separate houses, row or terrace houses, townhouses Whether dwelling has: Home Security Items All dwellings Whether dwelling has: Security screen door(s) or deadlock(s) Amount household has spent on home security in the 12 months to Oct 99 Level of home security present Importance of existing security in the households decision to live in the dwelling Whether Household installed security items after moving into the dwelling Main outputs Publication: Home Security Precautions, New South Wales (ABS Cat No. 5416.1) Classifications Standard Classifications are used for Labour Force variables and the following have been used for household security data items.
Dwelling characteristics Home Security Items Blocks of Flats/apartments Whether block of flats has: Home Security Items Separate houses, row or terrace houses, townhouses Whether dwelling has: Home Security Items All dwellings Whether dwelling has: Amount household has spent on home security in the 12 months to Oct 99 Level of home security present Importance of existing security in the households decision to live in the dwelling Whether Household installed security items after moving into the dwelling Other concepts (summary) Not Applicable Comments and/or Other Regions Not applicable Frequency comments At this stage it is not planned to run another Home Security Precautions survey. One-off state supplementary survey Data availability comments Data is available in the publication Home Security Precautions, New South Wales (ABS Cat No. 4516.1). Customised data services are available to clients on request. Document Selection These documents will be presented in a new window.
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