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Cognitive Pretesting of the National Crime Victimization Survey Supplemental Victimization Survey

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RSM2017-03

Abstract

At the request of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), the Center for Survey Measurement (CSM) conducted cognitive testing of the redesign of the 2016 National Crime Victimization Survey’s Supplemental Victimization Survey (NCVS SVS). The supplement is used to collect data on stalking victimization. Questions measure the prevalence, characteristics, and consequences of nonfatal stalking. The purpose of this cognitive research was to test new and revised questions for the 2016 NCVS Supplemental Victimization Survey instrument. The pretesting placed additional emphasis on the designing and performance of the supplement’s screener questions, which are used to identify victims of stalking for the detailed battery of follow-up questions. The results of these cognitive interviews helped inform the final version of the SVS questionnaire, which was administered in 2016. This report presents the findings and resulting recommendations from the sixty cognitive interviews that CSM conducted between September 2015 and November 2015.

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