Crime Prevention Planning Tool
In 2009 SEESAC provided support to the Ministry of Interior (MoI) of Croatia for the implementation of a comprehensive national survey on public perception of security. The second stage of this project involves enabling MoI to plan indepedently targeted crime prevention activities. For that purpose SEESAC, through UNDP Croatia, has provided MoI with the SPSS Software.
Through the SPSS Software, the Ministry of Interior will be able to internally perform detailed analysis of surveys data allowing for detailed planning of initiatives for crime prevention and the improvement of the public perception of security. The SPSS software will enable the Ministry of Interior to:
- create their own data base of data gathered from the National Surveys;
- update the survey on public perception of security with new data as the questionnaire used for the national survey is still posted on the MoI website and will be used in future for additional collection of data;
- process the received data from the national survey through descriptive and multi--choice variables allowing for detailed cross-referencing and identification of results for specific sub-groups.
More specifically, the SPSS software components will enable MoI, through the results of the current National Survey on Public Perception of Security as well as future public opinion surveys, to:
- Statistics Base - will be used for descriptive statistics both on the sample of entire Croatia and subsamples per each county. The results will be a comparison of data gathered between the national level and county level as well as between 20 counties in Croatia.
- Advanced Statistics – MoI will work on the complex data processing on the sample from the entire national population as well as on the county level. E.g. variance level analyses (ANOVA). The results will be identification of the certain variables in realistic time and realistic interpretation of collected data.
- Custom Tables – table result processing, creation of multiple tables which will enable detail and synoptical data diagram (Hi-square test, t-test and z-test)
- Regression – This component will enable processing of sophisticated data models; results will be classification of data per certain groups, samples and subsamples
- Categories – work with different variables which will enable graphic diagrams of specific activities which need to be taken to improve the work of MoI headquarters and certain police administrations in the field
- Exact Tests – use of more than 30 exact tests which cover the entire range of data by different categories which will enable identification of different statistic patterns and links
- Neural Networks – creation of standard operating analyses of the collected data which will enable practical conclusions and prognosis.
