The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) is the only source of national data on a number of policy-relevant subjects related to criminal victimization. Though the NCVS was originally designed to provide national level estimates of criminal victimization, research demonstrated that the NCVS could be enhanced to produce several types of subnational estimates. The Bureau of Justice Statistics recently released a series of victimization estimates for the 50 states and select metropolitan statistical areas from 1999 to 2013 based on small-area models developed by Westat. This webinar will report on the methods used to produce the subnational NCVS estimates and explain how to access the estimates and how the subnational findings can be used by state Statistical Analysis Centers and other local stakeholders.
