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February 4, 2018
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MANILA – Common crimes in the country have dropped, a report by the Social Weather Stations (SWS) showed.
Only 7.1 percent of families experienced common crimes, including losing property to street robbery, burglars and carnappers within the past six months, according to SWS’ Dec. 8-16, 2017 poll.
But due to the record-low property crime rate of 3.1 percent in June 2017, the resulting annual average was a record-low 5.6 percent.
The 2017 annual average was 2 percentage points lower than the annual average in 2016 and 0.6 point below the previous record-low annual average of 6.2 percent in 2015.
Families victimized by physical violence reached 0.7 percent last year, lower than the 0.8 percent in 2016.
Moreover, the latest SWS poll showed that 7.6 percent of the population –roughly 1.7 million families – reported having been victimized by any of the common crimes in the last quarter of 2017.
But the annual average hit a record low of 6.1 percent, even lower than the 8.2 percent annual average in 2016.
Complaints from families victimized by street robbery ended with a record-low annual average of 4.2 percent, owing to an only 2.3 percent rate in June 2017.
The survey had 1,200 respondents, 300 each from Metro Manila and other areas in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao.
It had a sample error margin of ±2.5 percent for national percentages and ±6 percent each for Metro Manila, Balance Luzon, Visayas, and Mindanao. (PNA)
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