Surveying Victims: Options for Conducting the National Crime Victimization Survey by National Research Council of the National Academies

Author:National Research Council of the National Academies
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Behavioral and Social Sciences : Law and Justice. Behavioral and Social Sciences : Policy, Reviews and Evaluations
Publisher: NATIONAL ACADEMY PRESS
Published: 2008-05-21T00:00:00+00:00

* Planned for implementation in 2007.

NOTE: CATI, computer-assisted telephone interviewing. CAPI, computer-assisted personal interviewing.

4–B

ALTERNATIVES TO THE CURRENT DESIGN IN THE LONG TERM

Tables 4-2 and 4-3 present a set of design packages that can be compared with the current NCVS design. The columns of Table 4-2 describe a set of specific design features on which the packages vary. Each design feature poses some trade-off decision for BJS, offering benefits of some type, but also potential costs or risks of not fulfilling the BJS mission with regard to the measurement of crime. We discuss first the columns of Table 4-2, the specific design features, by pointing out the benefits and costs of each feature; assessments of advantages and disadvantages of each design package follow in Table 4-3.

We emphasize—and elaborate in greater detail in Section 4–B.2—that the set of design packages we discuss in this chapter is not, and is not intended to be, exhaustive of all design possibilities for the NCVS. Instead, they are meant to suggest a range of choices and broad visions for the survey. It should also be noted that we do not have the capacity to provide an estimated price for all of these various options; while some can clearly be assumed to be less costly than the current NCVS design, others may not. Our focus is on the mapping of possible design choices to desired goals, and the weight one puts on the end cost of the design (relative to other choices) is important in selecting one; we think that it is our charge to suggest possibilities but not to impose any particular weighting of goals and design characteristics.

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