Source(s)

Baum K. National Crime Victimization Survey: Identity Theft, 2005. Bureau of Justice Statistics. November 2007.:1-8.

Definitions

Households experiencing identity theft are defined as those in which at least one member experienced one or more types of identity theft.

A household consists of all the people who occupy a housing unit. A house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters; that is, when the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons in the structure and there is direct access from the outside or through a common hall. A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated people, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit, or a group of unrelated people sharing a housing unit such as partners or roomers, is also counted as a household. The count of households excludes group quarters. There are two major categories of households, 'family' and 'non-family'.

Crime data is reported by the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program by volume and as a rate per 100,000 inhabitants, where the probability of being a victim is derived by taking the total number of crimes reported in a location and dividing it by the location's population. Consequently, this figure does not take into account persons who are repeat victims of a crime. Denominators do not include non-residents of the specific location.

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