Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.
Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock (
) or https:// means you’ve safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.
Topics
Data & Maps
Surveys & Programs
Resource Library
NCVS Pretesting Activities on the Proposed Internet Predation Questions: Focus Group Results
NCVS Pretesting Activities on the Proposed Internet Predation Questions: Focus Group Results
SSM2008-08
Executive Summary
The Bureau of Justice Statistics has proposed the addition of Internet predation questions to the National Crime Victimization Survey. These questions would be asked of all children between the ages of 12 and 17 years old in the sampled household. These questions collect information about contacts with online strangers. In October of 2006 staff at the U.S. Census Bureau conducted cognitive interviews to pretest these proposed questions (Beck & DeMaio, 2007). The pretesting revealed that these questions were problematic and required additional revisions and pretesting. To gather more information on how to revise these questions, we conducted two focus groups: one all-boys group and one all-girls group. This report details the findings from those focus groups. With these focus groups, we gathered a great deal of useful information that helped us further refine the questions.
Others in Series
Working Paper
An Accessibility Evaluation of the Secure Message Center Application
At times the Census Bureau needs to communicate with survey respondents in a secure manner.
Working Paper
An Accessibility and Usability Evaluation of the QUISP II Application
The U. S. Census Bureau needs to monitor the quality control status of official Census Bureau forms and letters for the Decennial Census and other surveys.
Working Paper
Second Round Cognitive Pretesting on the Internet Predation Questions
The Statistical Research Division conducted research on the newly-proposed Internet Predation questions for the 2007 National Crime Victimization Survey.
Related Information
Page Last Revised - October 8, 2021
✕
Is this page helpful?
Yes
No
Yes
No✕
NO THANKS
255 characters maximum
255 characters maximum reached
255 characters maximum reached
✕
Thank you for your feedback.
Comments or suggestions?
Comments or suggestions?
