Displaying Violent Crime Trends Using Estimates from the National Crime Victimization Survey
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Initiated in 1972, the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is an annual sample survey of households in the United States conducted by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS). Currently, 45,000 households are in the sample. All household members age 12 or over, or approximately 94,000 residents, are interviewed twice yearly about incidents in which they were the victims of a crime during the previous 6 months.
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