Scottish Crime and Justice Survey 2014/15: Main Findings

Annex A: Data Tables

The following data tables provide data for some of the key measures of the survey, including trend data for past crime surveys in Scotland. Notes on how to read and interpret these tables follow.

Tables displaying different groupings of crime (e.g. to Table A 1.5) have the following structure where each crime group represents a subset of the crime group above (see Section 9.3 of the Technical Report for more information on the groupings of crime displayed in this report):

ALL SCJS CRIME includes all crimes measured by the survey except threats and sexual offences.

• PROPERTY CRIME comprises the following exclusive groups:
  • Vandalism
  • All motor vehicle theft related incidents
  • Housebreaking
  • Other household thefts (including bicycle theft)
  • Personal theft (excluding robbery)
• VIOLENT CRIME comprises the following exclusive groups:
  • Assault
  • Robbery

Further subgroups are also shown - for example vandalism is further broken down into motor vehicle vandalism and property vandalism.

For analysts using the SPSS data files (which will be available from the UK Data Service), variable names which correspond to the crime groups displayed in the data tables are provided in Annex 8 of the Technical Report.

COMPARABLE CRIME is a subset of all SCJS crime that can be compared with police recorded crime statistics. This comparable subset comprises vandalism, acquisitive crime and violent crime. Just under two-thirds (65%) of crime was classed as comparable with police recorded crime statistics (Section 2.4). Further details about police recorded crime statistics are included in Section 12.2 of the Technical Report.

Notes

1. Upper and lower confidence interval estimates are based on 95% confidence intervals.

2. For Table A 1.3 and Table A 1.4 (crime rates) for the following crime groups, rates are quoted per 10,000 adults: all SCJS crime, property crime, personal theft (excluding robbery), theft from the person, other personal theft, violent crime, assault, serious assault, and robbery. For all other crime groups rates are quoted per 10,000 households.

3. 'n/a' denotes where data is unavailable. This is used in the following tables to reflect the change from 2008-09 onwards, to reporting on high-level property and violent crime groups, rather than household and personal crimes, which were reported on in 2005-06 and earlier years.

Table A 1.1: Estimates of the extent of crime in Scotland

Table A 1.2: Estimates of the extent of crime in Scotland by year

Table A 1.3: Rates of crime in Scotland, per 10,000 households/individuals

Table A 1.4: Rates of crime in Scotland, per 10,000 households/individuals by year

Table A 1.5: Prevalence of victimisation by year

Table A 1.6: Prevalence of crime by demographic variables

Table A 1.7: Prevalence of property crime by demographic variables

Table A 1.8: Prevalence of violent crime by demographic variables

Table A 1.9: Percentage of crime reported to the police by year

Table A 1.10: Perceptions of how crime rates have changed in respondents' local area over the past two years

Table A 1.11: Percentage of respondents who feel safe walking alone after dark in their local area, from 2008/09 to 2014/15

Table A 1.12: Percentage of respondents who feel safe at home alone after dark in their local area, from 2008/09 to 2014/15

Table A 1.13: Percentage of respondents saying police in local area doing a good or excellent job, by police division, 2012/13 to 2014/15

Table A 1.14: Percentage of respondents confidence in local policing's ability to prevent crime, by police division, 2008/09 to 2014/15

Table A 1.15: Percentage of respondents confidence in local policing's ability to respond quickly to appropriate calls and information from the public, by police division, from 2008/09 to 2014/15

Table A 1.16: Percentage of respondents confidence in local policing's ability to deal with incidents as they occur, by police division, from 2008/09 to 2014/15

Table A 1.17: Percentage of respondents confident in local police to investigate incidents after they occur, by police division, from 2008/09 to 2014/15

Table A 1.18: Percentage of respondents confident in local police to solve crimes, by police division, from 2008/09 to 2014/15

Table A 1.19: Percentage of respondents confident in local police to catch criminals, by police division, from 2008/09 to 2014/15

Table A 1.20: Percentage of respondents confident in aspects of the Scottish Criminal Justice System, 2014/15