The 2013 Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW), previously the British Crime Survey, estimates that there were 8.6 million crimes in England and Wales in the year ending March 2013 (based on interviews with a representative sample of 50,000 households). This represents a 9% decrease compared with the previous year’s survey. However, not all crimes make it into the CSEW. What is missing?
Figure 1 compares CSEW estimates with police recorded crime figures. It takes into account the fact that police have changed the way they have recorded certain crimes since the late 1990s. But what does the graph suggest has been happening to trends in reporting crime to the police over the past 20 years?
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