This final report provides a background on the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS), the motivation for redesigning it, and the redesign process; it discusses the various NCVS modules, including victim-offender relationship (VOR), offender characteristics (OC), self-protection (SP), police involvement (PI), socio-emotional consequences (CS), economic consequences (CE), victim services (VS), and series crimes in the crime incident report (CIR).
This report describes testing efforts to develop and assess a new National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) instrument. This testing was a part of the NCVS Instrument Redesign and Testing Project, a major multiyear effort to revamp the existing core survey instrument, which was last updated in 1992. The effort had three main goals: modernize the organization and content of the NCVS instrument, increase the quality of information collected and efficiency of the instrument flow, and improve the measurement and classification of crime. This report details findings from a large-scale national field test to compare differences in the measurement of victimization incident characteristics between two versions of the core NCVS instrument. It examines the performance of the changes to the Crime Incident Report.