Conventions used in figures and tables
Table abbreviations
‘0’
indicates no response in that particular category or less than 0.5% (this does not apply when
percentages are presented to one decimal point).
‘-’
indicates that for police recorded crime perce ntage changes are not reported because the base
number of offences is less than 50.
‘..’
indicates that for police recorded crime that data are not available.
Percentages
Row or column percentages may not add to 100% due to rounding.
A percentage may be quoted in the text for a single category that is identifiable in the tables only by
summing two or more component percentages. In order to avoid rounding errors, the percentage has
been recalculated for the single category and therefore may differ by one percentage point from the
sum of the percentages derived from the tables.
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