UNODC-UNECE Manual on Victim Surveys

The UNODC-UNECE Manual on Victim Surveys will be published early 2009.

Purpose

• To provide basic information for developing national victimization surveys
• To identify key issues to assist in decision making about survey approach, methodology, analysis and presentation of results
• To improve comparability of victim survey data across countries
• To provide reference to more technical material
• To give options and identify best practices

Structure and content

1. Introduction
2. Methodological issues
3. Sampling
4. Respondents
5. Content of the survey
6. Data collection and capture operations
7. Questionnaire design
8. Interviewing
9. Data processing
10. Analysis and interpretation of data quality
11. Data dissemination and documentation
12. Comparability of data across countries

Annexes:

• Glossary of survey-related terms
• Business surveys
• Lessons from the pilot study of the Violence Against Women survey
• Surveys on safety
• Surveying minorities

The manual was developed by a joint UNECE-UNODC Task Force on Victim Surveys established in 2005, composed by representatives from Australia (Chair), Canada, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, UK, and USA. The Statistical Office of the European Commission (EUROSTAT), the European Agency for Fundamental Rights (EU-FRA) and the European Institute for Crime Prevention and Control, affiliated with the UN (HEUNI) also participated regularly in the work of the Task Force.