The National Crime Victimization
Survey collects analyzes publishes, and disseminates statistics on
the amount and type of crime committed against households and
indiduals in the U.S. Respondents include persons 12 years or older
living in about 51,000 interviewed households in 329 stratification
PSUs.
The household identity theft
questions are being removed from the NCVS-1 because the Bureau of
Justice Statistics plans to conduct an Identity Theft Supplement
(ITS) to the NCVS biannually, beginning in July of 2012. The
decision to routinely implement the ITS, which will collect
person-level data on consequences of and responses to identity
theft, is in response to recommendations from the OIG Audit of the
Department of Justice Efforts to Combat Identity Theft that the
"NCVS be expanded to collect greater information about identity
theft victims" (Audit Report 10-21). The data collected though the
ITS will cover and expand upon the household level identity theft
data collected through the core NCVS, rendering the household
identity theft questions unnecessary and duplicative.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that
the collection of information encompassed by this request complies
with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR
1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding
the proposed collection of information, that the certification
covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a
benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control
number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of
these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked
and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.