You asked
With regards to Table D10: Percentage of CSEW incidents reported to the police or Action Fraud, year ending December 1981 to year ending March 2020, I would like to request a demographic breakdown of those who did not report their incident to police for:
- Violence (all)
- Wounding
- Assault with minor injury or without injury
- Without injury
- Domestic violence
- Acquaintance violence
- Stranger violence
- Robbery (all)
- Domestic Burglary (all)
For each of these, I would like to see the personal characteristics (Table D1) and household characteristics (Table D2) for those who did not report to police for each type of offence listed above, for the years cumulative years 2017-18 to 2019-20 and for the cumulative years 2014-15 to 2016-17.
This would be to explore which groups of persons/households are more or less likely to report to police.
If it were possible to reproduce longer term for each year, within time/cost threshold for FOI, this would be preferable to see how if at all underreporting rates change across socio-economic data for violence, robbery and burglary.
We said
Thank you for your enquiry.
Unfortunately, we are unable to provide you with the demographic breakdowns of those who did not report their incident to the police from the Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW). In order to answer your request, we would need to create an ad hoc analysis. Under the Freedom of Information Act 2000 (FOIA), public authorities are not obligated to create information in response to requests. We therefore consider this to be information not held.
Special extracts and tabulations of crime data for England and Wales are available to order (subject to legal frameworks, disclosure control, resources and agreements of costs, where appropriate). Such enquiries should be made to: crimestatistics@ons.gov.uk. We recommend that you contact the crime team directly in order to discuss your data requirements in more detail.