Heather Brotsos, Chief, Victimization Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) showed the 50-year history of the National Victimization Survey (NCVS) and highlighted the recent addition of measuring hate crime and youth victimization. He shared the redesign process to revise its crime concepts, to evaluate police performance and to use data collection methods that adapt to current technologies to achieve more cost-efficient data collection.

Subsequently, Joseph Traynor of the Crime, Income and Wealth Division of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) of England and Wales noted that the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) is undergoing its most radical change in the last 40 years, which is due to the COVID-19 pandemic and new government policy requirements. On the one hand, it is facing a transformation from a face-to-face survey to a telephone survey in a panel format. Another change responds to the “Levelling Up” policy, a UK initiative to create safer neighborhoods to live in by 2030, which requires local representativeness to reach out especially to neighborhoods with the highest crime problems. In view of this, a new sampling strategy is being developed with a focus on targeting key areas and comparability for monitoring. Thus, the CSEW provides guidelines on how to collaborate in the evaluation of public security policies at the local level, while reducing costs.

Following this point of view, Sanna Wallin, senior researcher at the Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention (Brä), mentioned that the Swedish Crime Survey (SCS), faced with the problems of increasing non-response, costs and the need for greater detail on the crimes investigated, the SCS moved from a purely telephone survey to one based on an online and postal questionnaire with telephone follow-up, in addition to increasing the sample, the number of crimes investigated, broadening the age range of respondents and increasing the geographic breakdown. This has made the Swedish survey more robust, detailed and representative of the Swedish reality.

For Mexico, Mario Alberto Santillana, Deputy Director General of National Surveys on Government, Public Safety, Victimization and Justice of the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI), pointed out that the National Survey on Victimization and Perception of Public Safety (ENVIPE) allows analysis of its data at the sub-national level and presented a data analysis incorporating different sources of information to offer more comprehensive scenarios.

On the matter of making the surveys comparable, Alejandro Ramos, from the National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) of Colombia, indicated that given the growth of crimes related to the digital context, in 2021 an adaptation of the digital security incidents module of the Coexistence and Citizen Security Survey was made based on the Initiative for the Crime Victimization Survey in Latin America and the Caribbean (LACSI). This process, which improved international comparability, required several technical and logistical tasks to ensure its reliability and correspondence with the reality of the country. What is achieved in the end is a more detailed portrait of a type of crime that is constantly growing.

Finally, Farah Paredes, Head of Design and Analysis in the Department of Surveys, National Statistics Office (ONE) of the Dominican Republic, described the ongoing process of the full change of the victimization module of the National Multipurpose Household Survey 2022 (ENHOGAR) to the LACSI initiative framework. This module will also increase its capacity to report the country’s progress in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) on security and justice issues, will make the hidden number visible, and will increase the possibilities of supporting public policy decisions. Now, the results analysis phase is underway, and its publication is awaited.

In conclusion, Salomé Flores, Coordinator of the UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence, said that the webinar provided guidelines on how to continue the future discussion aimed at enriching and strengthening the measurements made from the Victimization Surveys to respond to the new realities and at the same time be more effective and efficient for the benefit of their countries.

Visit the YouTube channel of the UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence to view the recording of the webinar.

The documents of these surveys and all surveys conducted worldwide from 2010 to 2022 can be consulted in the Atlas of Victimization Surveys of the UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence: /index.php/mapa-2/

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The use of CVS has proliferated in the world over the last 50 years due to their great usefulness in generating data that sheds light on the real crime rate in a country and on people’s opinions about their security and relevant justice institutions. For example, between 1992 and 2009, an average of 3.6 official surveys were conducted worldwide per year, while between 2010 and 2020, this average rose to 5.1 surveys per year, representing a 40% growth (see UNODC-INEGI CoE Atlas of Victimization Surveys). This growth is linked to their value in generating key information for monitoring 5 indicators of Goal 16 of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. However, despite this proliferation, there is a lack of tools focused on guiding the elaboration and dissemination of victimization data.

Given this circumstance, the UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence, through this new tool, seeks to guide the presentation of reports and stories with quality data that generate impact. This document delves into:

• Presentation of results in accordance with scientific standards.
• The visualization and narrative elements increase the likelihood that the message will reach those who use these data.
• Strategies to promote accessibility and availability of results to the end-user.
• The importance of reinforcing the replicability and comparability of results between surveys.

The first two sections of this publication address good practices for Results Reports and Data Stories. In each of them, we identify their characteristics, the general steps for their construction, and the elements to ensure their quality. The third section explores the use of images, color, text, and the layout of the documents themselves to build a visualization of the impact that encourages the use of victimization data.

The document also incorporates the latest advances in data visualization strategies that encompass all sections of a document. Finally, it is aligned with international data production standards such as the United Nations Fundamental Principles of Official Statistics, the ECLAC Regional Code of Practice on Statistics for Latin America and the Caribbean, and the OECD Council Recommendation on Good Statistical Practice.

The UNODC-INEGI Center of Excellence trusts that this document will be useful for countries and their data-producing institutions in the process of constructing reports and data stories of future CVS around the world.

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Download document: Dissemination of victimization data. Good practices in elaborating reports, storytelling with data, and data visualizations with Victimization Survey results.

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The objective of this forum was for experts from the national and international community to contribute with their experience to provide comments on the questionnaire of the Victimization Study and Perception of Insecurity (EVPI) 2021 in the Metropolitan District of Quito. EVPI has been carried out in the DMQ on 9 occasions since 2008, generating indicators at the local level.

During its intervention, the Center of Excellence stressed the importance of adjusting the instrument to adopt United Nations international standards generated and promoted by UNODC regarding the implementation of a Crime Victimization Survey, such as the Latin America and the Caribbean Crime Victimization Survey Initiative (LACSI), which promotes a regional questionnaire based in the International Classification of Crimes for Statistical Purposes (UNODC; 2015) and the guidelines of the Manual on Victimization Surveys (UNECE, UNODC; 2010). Among other institutions, the Organization of American States (OAS), as a member of the LACSI Working Group, also stressed the importance of adjusting EVIP to this Initiative.

Adopting LACSI would mean that Ecuador could generate quality, reliable, timely and comparable statistical information to monitor to monitor the progress of 5 indicators of the 2030 Agenda (11.7.2, 16.1.3, 16.1.4, 16.3.1, 16.5. 1) contributing to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities and 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions.

The Center of Excellence is available to provide guidance and technical assistance to the Member States of the region to implement Victimization Surveys, to understand the crime phenomenon in greater depth to take public policy decisions more effective and evidence-based to leave no one behind.

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