Individual characteristics
Age	In years
Male	1=yes; 0=no
White (as reference)	1=Non-Latino White; 0=no
Latino	1=Latino (any race); 0=no
Black	1=Non-Latino Black; 0=no
Other nonwhite	1=Non-Latino other nonwhite group; 0=no
Divorced	1=yes; 0=no
Separated	1=yes; 0=no
Never married	1=yes; 0=no
Education	Level of education (0 to 22)
Employed	1=employed during the last 6 months; 0=no. We coded a person as employed only if the job lasted “two consecutive weeks or more,” which was the majority of employed persons, although the results were not sensitive to this requirement.
Household income	Level of household income (1 to 14). To address the issue of missing income, the BJS used a hot deck imputation method to impute income (Berzofsky et al. 2014). As a sensitivity analysis, we also re-estimated all models with the income variable removed and used the victims’ employment status and education to measure the victims’ income-earning abilities. The results were the same across these model specifications.
Homeowner	1=respondent/family owned the home; 0=no
Length of residence	In years
Neighborhood characteristics
Population density	Logged population per square mile
Central city neighborhood	1=yes; 0=no
SES disadvantage	Composite disadvantage index
% Black	Percentage of tract population that is non-Latino Black
% Latino	Percentage of tract population that is Latino
% Asian and Pacific Islander	Percentage of tract population that is non-Latino Asian and Pacific Islander
% other race/ethnicity	Percentage of tract population that is non-Latino other race
Race entropy score	A tract’s entropy score is $E=\sum _{i=1}^5({\prod }_i)\ln [1/{\prod }_i]$ where ${\prod }_i$ refers to a particular racial/ethnic group’s proportion of the tract population. The five racial/ethnic groups are Latinos, non-Latino Whites, Blacks, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and other races.
% foreign born	Percentage of tract population that is foreign born
% ages 18–34	Percentage of tract population aged 18–34 years
% divorced/separated	Percentage of tract population that is divorced or separated
% moved into units <10 years	Percentage of households that moved into units less than 10 years ago
% vacant housing	Percentage of vacant housing units
County context
% unemployed	Percentage of county population that is unemployed
Southern border with Mexico	1=yes; 0=no
Northern border with Canada	1=yes; 0=no
Traditional immigrant county	1=yes; 0=no
New immigrant county	1=yes; 0=no
Police force size	Number of full-time sworn police officers per 1,000 population
Police expenditures	Police expenditures per capita (inflation-adjusted 2010 dollars)
South	1=yes; 0=no
Midwest	1=yes; 0=no
West	1=yes; 0=no
Survey administration variables
Survey reference time	Reference period (1=1 month, 2=2 months, …, 6=6 months)
Time in sample	1=first interview, 2=second interview, …, 7=7th interview
Year of interview	Year dummies (2006 through 2014; 2005 as the reference group)