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5 Decision-Making Process for a New Victimization Measurement System
5 Decision-Making Process for a New Victimization Measurement System
Pages 117-126
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Researchers can access the raw data through the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research and thus can analyze the data to fit the needs of their investigation. The vast majority of the public, in contrast, has access to the data primarily through the form of routine annual estimates available on the BJS website, or through 117
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, it is often beyond people's expertise to use the survey data or even to determine whether they can compile this information themselves. This problem can be addressed by using an advisory committee charged with providing BJS with information about public interest in specific kinds of NCVS reports; improving the organization of the victimization component of the BJS website so that it is clear what NCVS reports are available and what requires special analyses; and expanding the number of trend charts and spreadsheets to include compilations of interest to the public.
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Federal statistical agencies that successfully contract out their data collection (either to the Census Bureau or a private contractor) generally have mathematical statisticians and survey methodologists who direct, coordinate, and oversee the activities of the contractor.
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These might be time series of individual population rates and means in spreadsheet form, attractive to a very broad audience, as well as microdata predesigned to have commonly desired analytic variables on observation units that are popular. Recommendation 5.4: BJS should continue to improve the avail ability of NCVS data and estimates in ways that facilitate user access.
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: BJS did not receive the funding requested to restore its base funding necessary to meet the growing costs of data collection and the infor mation demands of policymakers and the criminal justice community. To address base adjustments insufficient to carry out ongoing opera tions of its National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)
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For example, BJS was unable to update the NCVS household sample to reflect population and household shifts identified in the 2000 census until 2007. The Statistical Policy Office should note such breakdowns in basic survey maintenance functions in its annual report Statistical Programs of the United States Government.
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The data collector must know what survey design choices are associated with the largest portions of costs in order to effectively consider trade-offs of costs and errors. Recent attention to survey costs (e.g., at conferences hosted by the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences)
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. They include the failure to study the use of audio computerassisted interviewing for many of the sensitive topics in the survey, despite its widespread use in other federal surveys (e.g., the National Survey of Drug Use and Health and the National Survey of Family Growth, as well as BJSsponsored data collections as required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act)
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We urge careful consideration of survey cost structures prior to such a move. The panel notes that this review would be greatly facilitated if BJS could obtain disaggregated costs from the Census Bureau for the current NCVS.
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