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National Crime Victimization Questionnaire Review

Every three years, every data collection of the Federal government must be reapproved by the Office of Management and Budget. The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is currently undergoing this reapproval process under which BJS allows for public comment and review of the data collection instruments during a two month period. At this time, BJS is soliciting comments on the existing survey instruments for the National Crime Victimization Survey and on additional questions to be added to the survey concerning the victimization of persons with disabilities. These new questions will be added to the end of the crime incident report questionnaire.

The questionnaires and new questions for review (in pdf format) are:

National Crime Victimization Survey, 8/31/99 version, (187K)

NCVS Crime Incident Report, 4/13/99 version, (169K)

Final Recommendation for Disability Questions and background, (16K)

The Federal Register announcement (128K, pdf file) concerning the comment period appeared on April 18, 2000.

In addition, the following were distributed to encourage comments:

Letter from Jan M. Chaiken, Director, BJS

National Crime Victimization Survey description
    and summary of proposed changes (15K, pdf file)

A recent example of how these data are used is Criminal Victimization 1998: Changes 1997-98 with Trends 1993-98.

Comments should be submitted by June 15, 2000 and may be submitted by email to askbjs@ojp.usdoj.gov. Please include NCVS Questionnaire in the subject line. Comments also may be submitted by mail to:

Jan M. Chaiken, Director
Bureau of Justice Statistics
810 7th St. N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20531
Attention: NCVS Questionnaire