Scottish Crime and Justice Survey 2023/24: Main findings

Annex A: Data tables

Overview

All tables referenced in the main text are available on the associated data tables webpage. These tables provide data for some of the key measures of the survey, including trend data for past crime surveys in Scotland. Information on how to read and interpret these tables is presented below.

Tables displaying different groupings of crime (e.g. Table A1) have the following structure:[1]

All SCJS crime includes all crimes measured by the survey except threats and sexual offences.

Property crime comprises the following groups:

• vandalism
• all motor vehicle theft related incidents
• housebreaking
• other household thefts (including bicycle theft)
• personal theft (excluding robbery)

Violent crime comprises the following groups:

• assault
• robbery

Fraud and computer misuse comprises the following groups:

• bank and credit card fraud
• other types of fraud (including consumer and retail fraud and advanced fee fraud)
• computer misuse

Further sub-groups 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 Archive), variable names which correspond to the crime groups displayed in the data tables are provided in Annex 10 of the Technical Report.

Comparable crime is a sub-set of all SCJS crime that can be compared with police recorded crime statistics. This comparable sub-set comprises vandalism, acquisitive crime and violent crime but excludes fraud and computer misuse. Three-fifths (60%) of property and violent crimes were classed as comparable with police recorded crime statistics, as discussed in the Comparisons with other statistical sources chapter. Further details about police recorded crime statistics are included in Chapter 12 of the Technical Report.

Notes

1. Upper and lower estimates are based on 95% confidence intervals.
2. In Annex tables A4 and A5 rates are quoted per 10,000 adults for the following crime groups: personal theft, theft from the person, other theft, violent crime and all fraud and computer misuse. The following crimes are quoted per 10,000 households: vandalism, motor vehicle theft, housebreaking, household theft and bicycle theft. All SCJS crime, property crime and comparable crime are presented using a combined rate of adults and households.
3. Columns showing percentage change or percentage point change for SCJS results over time only present statistically significant changes. Where an apparent increase or decrease over time is not statistically significant, this is described using the shorthand [ns] for ‘not significant’.
4. For presentation purposes, some figures are shown as rounded. Estimated crime volumes are rounded to the nearest 1,000 and crime rates per 10,000 adults/households are rounded to the nearest 10. Percentage point changes and changes in estimated volumes are calculated on the unrounded figures.
5. The shorthand notation ‘[x]’ is used where data is unavailable – this is largely because the relevant question had not yet been added to the SCJS.
6. The tables detail the overall base size number of respondents. Base sizes for demographic and geographic breakdowns are available in the SCJS online data tables, base size figures are also rounded to the nearest 10.