Societal Data: Activity¶
Exploring the Crime Survey for England and Wales¶
The Catalogue Page¶
Starting at the catalogue page for the Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2018-2019:
https://beta.ukdataservice.ac.uk/datacatalogue/studies/study?id=8608
What is the UK Data Service Study Number for the Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2018-2019?
How many adults were interviewed? What is the number of units?
Using the Documentation¶
Now looking at the documentation tab, open the data dictionaries for the Crime Survey for England and Wales, 2018-2019, we are going to look at the adult, non-victim data:
csew_apr18mar19_nvf_ukda_data_dictionary.rtf.
How many variables are in the dataset?
There is a question that asks ‘How much of a problem is vandalism … ?’ What is the name of this variable? [Hint: search for a key word using CTRL + F]
Exploring the Data¶
Now look at some of the data using Nesstar. For this example, we are going to look at the British Crime Survey 2007-2008 Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset.
Nesstar: http://nesstar.ukdataservice.ac.uk/webview/
Drill down to the dataset: Unrestricted Access Datasets > Unrestricted Access Teaching Datasets > Crime Survey for England and Wales > British Crime Survey 2007-2008: Unrestricted Access Teaching Dataset
What percentage of people think that ‘lack of discipline from parents’ is the one main cause of crime in Britain today? [Hint: Look under Variable Description > Fear of Crime]
What percentage of people are ‘fairly worried’ about being physically attacked by strangers?