Assault
An incident, other than a robbery, where a person was threatened with force or physically attacked.
Attempted break and enter
An incident where an attempt was made to break into a persons' home, garage or shed.
Break and enter
An incident where a persons' home had been broken into. The persons' home was also defined to include their garage or shed. Break and enter offences relating to their car or garden were excluded.
Crime or public nuisance problems
Anything perceived by a person to be a problem arising from crime or people creating a public nuisance.
Family member
Includes Partner, Parent, Sibling, Child of victim, Other family member, Ex-partner and Family member (not further specified).
Friend
Includes Girlfriend/boyfriend, Ex-girlfriend/ex-boyfriend, Other friend and Other known person (not further specified).
Household
A group of persons in a private dwelling who share common facilities and meals or who consider themselves to be a household. It is possible for a dwelling to contain more than one household, for example, where regular provision is made for groups to take meals separately and where persons consider their households to be separate.
Motor vehicle theft
An incident where a motor vehicle was stolen from any member of the household. It includes privately owned motor vehicles as well as business/company vehicles used exclusively by any members of the household. A motor vehicle includes cars, motorbikes and trucks; while caravans, trailers and floats were excluded.
Neighbourhood
Persons were asked about crime problems in their neighbourhood. The perception of this term was left to the individual.
Offence
Indicates crimes which persons or households reported as having been committed against them.
Robbery
An incident where individual(s) stole something from a person by threatening or attacking them. It includes incidents of attempted robbery where individual(s) attempted to steal something from the person but nothing was actually stolen.
Sexual assault
An incident which was of a sexual nature involving physical contact: includes rape, attempted rape, indecent assault, and assault with intent to sexually assault. Sexual harassment (that did not lead to an assault) was excluded. Only females aged 18 years and over were asked sexual assault questions.
Victim
A household or person reporting at least one of the offences surveyed. Victims were counted once only for each type of offence, regardless of the number of incidents of that type.
Victimisation rate
The number of victims of an offence in a given population expressed as a percentage of that population.
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