This webinar will provide updates on efforts by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) to redesign the entire National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) instrument. It will describe results from a large-scale national field test of the NCVS Instrument Redesign, specifically the performance of the current NCVS instrument and procedures for the new instrument. Learn more about— 

• BJS’s decisions on the new survey instrument based on findings from the field test and other research 
• the timeline for this multi-year redesign project, including anticipated milestones for the implementation phase 
• improvements from the current instrument and changes to the methodology. 

Presenters:

Jennifer Truman, Ph.D., Statistician BJS

W. Sherman Edwards, Senior Advisor, Westat

David Cantor, PhD, Vice Principal, Westat