General Social Survey cycle 13: victimization (1999)      (gss13)

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Abstract:

Cycle 13 of the General Social Survey (GSS) is the third cycle (following cycles 3 and 8) that collected information in
1999 on the nature and extent of criminal victimisation in Canada. Focus content for cycle 13 addressed two areas of
emerging interest: public perception toward alternatives to imprisonment; and spousal violence and senior abuse.

Other subjects common to all three cycles include perceptions of crime, police and courts; crime prevention precautions;
accident and crime screening sections; and accident and crime incident reports. The target population of the GSS is all
individuals aged 15 and over living in a private household in one of the ten provinces.

DIRECTORY:   doc
  filename                    type      description
Attention_gssc13.doc, doc      b        Note to explain why version 2 of some files
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SURVEY STRUCTURE FOR THE DLI COLLECTION
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File(s) Prefix

gss       :  General Social Survey
  c13     :  cycle 13.........VICTIMIZATION
    m     :  Main File
    i     :  Incident File
    99    :  Survey Year
     app  :  Appendix
     ct   :  Comparison Tables
     dat  :  Data
     gid  :  Documentation and User's Guide
     que  :  Questionnaire
     rcl  :  Record Layout
     v2   :  Version 2 (of this file)
     vt   :  Variance Tables

File(s) Suffix (extension)

.doc  :  Word Document
.pdf  :  Adobe Acrobat
.wp   :  WordPerfect
.wpd  :  Wordperfect
.xls  :  Microsoft Excel
.zip  :  WinZip compressed file(s)

.dat  :  Data file(s)
.sas  :  SAS  code
.sps  :  SPSS code
.txt  :  Text file(s)

NOTE:  - file(s) with extension
         .doc .pdf, .wp, .wpd, .xls, .zip are Binary and .dat, .sas, .sps, .txt are Ascii
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Directory Structure:  
                      data
                      doc

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DATA FILE(S):
DIRECTORY:   data

  filename            size         type     description

gssc13m99dat.zip    2,931,567        b      compressed c13micm.dat (MAIN FILE)

          938 Maximum line length, (c13micm.dat), constant records
        25,876 Line feeds
     24,323,440 uncompressed


  filename            size         type     description

gssc13i99dat.zip      389,120        b      compressed c13mici.dat (INCIDENT FILE)

          282 Maximum line length (in file (c13mici.dat), constant records ,
        10,087 Line feeds
      2,864,708 Total characters

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DOCUMENTATION:
DIRECTORY:  doc

filename                    Description

gssc1399gid.pdf		    Public Use Microdata File Documentation and User's Guide

gssc1399vt.pdf,wpd          Variance Tables.......Appendix A

gssc1399que.pdf, doc        Victimization Questionnaire.......Appendix B

gssc1399app_c.pdf, doc      Comparison with Cycle 3, Cycle 8 and the Violence Against Women Survey...Appendix C

gssc1399ct.pdf, doc         Comparison Tables

gssc13m99app_d.pdf, xls     Topical Index to Variables for Main File.....Appendix D

gssc13m99app_ev2.pdf, wpd   Data Dictionary for Main File......Appendix E

gssc13m99app_f.pdf, xls     Record Layout for Main File........Appendix F

gssc13i99app_g.pdf, xls     Topical Index to Variables for Incident File.....Appendix G

gssc13i99app_hv2.pdf,wpd    Data Dictionary for Incident File...Appendix H  ()

gssc13i99app_i.pdf, xls     Record Layout for Incident File.....Appendix I

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COMMAND FILE(S):  SPSS code and/or SAS
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DIRECTORY:  doc
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filename              description

gssc13m99.sas         SAS Code for Main     File
gssc13i99.sas         SAS Code for Incident File

gssc13m99.sps         SPSS Code for Main     File
gssc13i99.sps         SPSS Code for Incident File

NOTE:  - file(s) with extension
         .doc .pdf, .wp, .wpd, .xls, .zip are Binary and .dat, .sas, .sps, .txt are Ascii


01/31/2001
WL