My non-profit organization works in over 70 low-income countries, and
we have data on crimes against our staff in each of those countries.
I would like to conduct a regression of factors that might affect our
employees' safety in those countries, and I'd like to include some
sort of crime index to essentially account for variance in overall
"dangerousness" among countries (or in other words basically control
for the criminal climate in each country) in order to isolate factors
we might be able to affect. But I can't find any index or statistics
that could even half work. I've poked around at the United Nations
Office on Drugs and Crime site and the United Nations Interregional
Crime and Justice Research Institute, to no avail. Please point me to
an index that shows crime, personal safety risk, or something to that
effect. Something that gives per capita crime statistics would be
great, or any sort of index that would work as a proxy for the
relative safety/danger of a country. I would need something that
contained figures for most poor countries for it to be useful (e.g.,
Guyana, Suriname, Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Belize, El Salvador,
Paraguay, Fiji, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Peru, Mexico, Morocco,
Alabania, Philippines, Armenia, Senegal, Cameroon, South Africa,
Burkina Faso, Lesotho, Kenya, Niger, Malawi, Mali, Gabon, Ghana,
Nepal, Bangladesh, Mongolia, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Tanzania, Togo,
etc!).
Thanks, and let me know if you need any clarification! |
Clarification of Question by
defaultuser-ga
on
02 Dec 2004 05:23 PST
Thanks, answerfinder-ga. I poked around on nationmaster.com site.
For some of the stats, e.g., "rape per capita" or "perception of
safety", it appears that one has to pay for membership on the site. I
would have no problem paying for membership if I thought it would have
what I was looking for, but they do not have data for many countries
of interest to me. E.g., murder they only have for seven Latin
American countries, and those tend to be the wealthier ones so are
exactly not the ones I need. They use the United Nations Survey of
Crime Trends, and that surveyed only a few countries, and it has no
developing countries -- for developing countries it only surveyed
victims living in capital cities and even that was only in just a few
poor countries; thus it gives no information about a country as a
whole and only reports on a few countries.
I was hoping for free data, and I was hoping for an index rating of
some sort, and I was hoping for coverage of most of our countries.
But maybe that's just not possible unless one is not an interpol
agent.
Cynthia, thanks also for your input. I floated around on that site
again a bit, and I gotta tell you it looks like what I am looking for
should be there but I'll be darned if I can't find anything useful.
At this point I'm wondering if there is no good data for crime that
will work for most of my countries, so I am wondering about some sort
of proxy index. I gotta believe that when the World Bank wants to run
a regression examining the effectiveness of their loans in increasing
GDP, they have indices that they include in the regression to
incorporate political transparency, linguistic fractionalization,
economic policies, trade openness, political instability, etc. in
order to isolate the loan amount variable's impact. There's gotta be
some index like that could be used for safety, doesn't there?
Lemme know what you think.
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