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Sampling Frame Effects on the British Crime Survey
Author(s) -
Lynn Peter
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.1111/1467-985x.00060
Subject(s) - sampling frame , frame (networking) , sampling (signal processing) , sampling error , statistics , survey methodology , population , survey data collection , computer science , demography , geography , mathematics , observational error , telecommunications , sociology , detector
In 1992, the British Crime Survey used the postcode address file as the sampling frame for the first time, having previously used the electoral registers (ERs). This paper addresses concerns that the change in frame may have affected the survey data, particularly measures of change over time in victimization rates. The general conclusion is that the change may have caused increases in crime rates between 1988 and 1992 to be slightly overestimated, but only by an amount which is very small compared with other sources of survey error. Information is also provided on the nature of the biased coverage of the ERs, and the population subgroups that would be under‐represented by surveys involving ER samples.