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6.1.5 PC - Percentage of Victimization

Last modified by Emily West on 2022/01/10 14:39

6.1.5 PC - Percentage of Victimization

TopicUrban challengesSub-challenges
Social6 - People Security6.1 - Control of Crime
Description
This indicator measures the percentage of citizens that have been victim of a crime in the last 12 months.
Scale as linked to D2.2 framework
  • City
  • Neighborhood 
  • Street
Data source [ link to data framework]
  • This has to be measured by surveys because sometimes crimes are not denounced.
Needs
  • Responses from survey
Expected Outputs
  • Annual outputs
  • Percentage
Calculation methods
  • Number of people that have been the victim of a crime / number of answers to the survey
Links and references
  • UN Indicators of Sustainable Development: Guidelines and Methodologies. http://www.un.org/esa/sustdev/natlinfo/indicators/guideline s.pdf
  • Hemispheric Security Observatory http://www.oas.org/dsp/english/cpo_observatorio_estadisti cas.asp
  • National Crime Victimization Survey of USA http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/ICPSR/series/95
  • Indicators of the Sustainable and Emergent Cities Initiative of the Inter-American Bank of Development. https://publications.iadb.org/bitstream/handle/11319/8132/ Guia-Metodologica-Programa-de-Ciudades-Emergentes-y-Sostenibles-Tercera-edicion-Anexo-de-indicadores.pdf?sequence=1