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Age: Is the period that has elapsed between the date of birth and the day of the interview, expressed
in years of age.

Aggression/Assault: Intentional or imprudent application of physical strength upon the body of a

person.

Alphabetically: Is the sequence that is set in a list of words, depending on the order in which is
presented, in the alphabet, the initial letter of each one. The Spanish language alphabet is formed
by only twenty-seven letters (a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, i, j, k, l, m, n, ñ, o, p, q, r, s, t, u, v, w, x, y, z).
Antenna: Receives radio signals to be able to use this function of the device. Normally vehicles
carry a normal antenna which can vary from color depending from the brand and model of vehicle,
like in size.
Antisocial Behavior: Are actions that express the existence of a social disorder. Although, this does not
constitute a crime itself, it increases the risk for the persons that inhabit in a certain environment and
contribute to the perception of insecurity.

Apartment: It is a room or set of rooms that are part of a building of two or more floors and is
separated from the other alike apartments by dividing walls which go from the floor to the ceiling.
It`s characterized for having an independent access through a common area y has also exclusive
services like: water, electricity and health service.
Appliance: Electric device that is used in the house; example., refrigerator, iron, water heater, electric
kitchen.

Appropriate informer: Is the person of 18 or more years, that is a common resident of the house and
knows the sociodemographic information of the persons living in the house.

Armoured door: Type of door that has a steel plate inside, this will cause it be much more difficult to
break or traverse it unlike a normal door.

Army: Institution in charge of the defense or military attack of a state. As such, each country defines
the structure to be taken, as well as the type and quantity of units that will form it, its composition, its
missions and its equipment. Institution designed to maintain the independence, sovereignty and honor
of Guatemala, the integrity of the territory, peace and internal and external security, according to
article 244 of the Political Constitution of the Republic of Guatemala.

Assault: Rushing suddenly and by surprise.

Attempt: Principle of execution of a crime that does not come to be carried out.

Attempted housing theft: obtain unauthorized access to a part of a building/dwelling or other

premises with or without the use of force against the building/housing, with the intent of committing a
robbery.
Attestation of antisocial and criminal behaviors: It is the identification of risk scenarios generated by
crimes and situations of social disorder in the area closer to the person that influences their perception
of insecurity.

Auto-part car theft: Illegal takeover or acquisition of any element or replacement piece specifically
design for a vehicle and which is essential for its functioning, including engines, transmission, wheels
and windows, with intention of permanently or temporally depriving a person or organization without
consent and without the use of force, threatening or the use violence, coercion or deceit.

Auto-parts: Any item or replacement piece specifically designed for a vehicle and which is essential for
its functioning, including, engine, transmission, wheels, wheel rims, mirrors/rear-view mirror,
antennas, windows, or the like outside the car, in other words that no access has been made to go
inside the vehicle or to the trunk to steal them.

Bachelor: It must be taken into account that exists careers at a technical level or degree and that some
consist of 6 years of university study while at the technical level the careers usually last 3 years.

Badges/emblems: Is the distinctive mark of a car in which we can observe the brand that belongs to.

Balconies in the windows: Banister or handrail that is built in the windows of the houses.

Bank fraud: Financial transaction-related fraud for personal gain. It includes the use of consumer
financial products, such as bank accounts, credit cards, cheques, store cards or online banking systems.

Blunt object: Instrument or act which produces a contusion, such as baseball bates, sticks, stones
clubs, or blackjacks.

Blunt Weapon: Instrument or act which produces concussion, like baseball bats, sticks, stones,
clubs or blackjacks.
Bodily injury: Intentional or unintentional physical damage to the body, which causes an alteration in
health and any other damage that leaves visible footprint in the human body. This occurs when a
human body is suddenly or briefly subject to intolerable levels of thermal, mechanical, electrical,
chemical energy. An injury also includes a deterioration in the health of the functions resulting from
the lack of one or more vital elements (i.e., air, water, heat), such as drowning, strangulation or
freezing.

Business/Commercial Facilities: it is the structure or land in which a commercial or industrial company

is located, including office buildings, shops, hotels, department stores, shopping malls, farms, wineries
and other types of land or buildings.

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Card Cloning: It is a type of fraud that allows to duplicate cards issued from a bank or a financial entity
as a means of payment and thus to carry out transactions or withdrawals without the authorization of
the holder.

City/town: Set of buildings and streets, governed by a city council, whose dense and large population is
dedicated to non-agricultural activities.

Clandestine: Secret, hidden and specially done or said secretly for fear of the law or to avoid it.

Coercion: To demand a particular course of action through the use of force, threats, intimidation,
threat of revealing compromising information or threat of defamation.

Common pot/single budget for expenses (common expense): Par of the income that is intended to
buy groceries for the group of persons (or person) that are in the house. It could be provided by one or
more of its members.

Community Council of Development (COCODE): Belongs to the National System of Development

Council of Guatemala. Promotes the economic, social and cultural development of a community. It is
integrated by the assembly of neighbors and executive committees.

Complaint: Formal communication made by any person to the competent authority of the possible
commission of a crime.

Condition of activity: Is the situation that distinguish persons of seven years or more of age, whether
they are economically active or not economically active, according t the performance or not of an
economic activity.

Copyrights: Legal terms given to the creators of literary or artistic works.

Corruption: To promise, offer, give, request or accept an undue advantage or from a public official or
from person who chairs or works in an institution, directly or indirectly, with the purpose that person
acts or refrains from acting in the exercise of his official functions.

Counterfeit products (pirate): Is the object or manufacture resulting from a copy of an original
product, which is normally sold below the market at occasional or fixed points of sale. They are also
known as “Chinese” products.

Court of peace: There are minor courts that belong to the judicial body, this courts are in charge of the
judges that are arrange to the demands of the Supreme Court of Justice, which have the faculty to
judge those cases that dispose national laws.

Crime act/Criminal offence: Facts typified clearly as crimes, just like robbery, extortion, kidnapping, or
threatening, among others.

Crime Incidence: Total number of times (incidents) that the population reported being victim of a
crime in a certain period time, in this occasion in 2016.

Crime incidents against home: Incidents in which all members of the household are affected by their
nature, such as the theft of an article that is commonly used or share, so that all persons in the
household may be considered victims.
Crime reported: Criminal incident reported to the competent authorities, usually the police.

Crime: Act or omission constituting an infringement of the criminal law.

Crime: Social Phenomenon constitute by a set of crime offences that are committed in a painful way,
and in certain time and place.

Criminal prevalence: percentage of the population who reported being a victim of a crime in a given
period of time, in this occasion, 2016. It could being a victim of one or more crimes; this measure only
refers to the condition of being a victim of a crime.

Criminal: Is the author of one or more crimes.

Dark figure: Crimes that are no reported to a competent authority and are therefore not found in the
administrative records of the police or any other statistic.

Departmental Development Council (DEDECO): Belongs to the National System of development

Councils of Guatemala. It supports municipalities in the functioning of the municipal development
councils and the Community Development councils, ensuring the fulfillment of their tasks.

Deprivation of liberty: Illegal retention of a person or persons against their will.

Divorce: Legally separated person who has not remarried or lives in marital union.

Doctorate: They have as minimum requirement the completion of a master's degree. The doctorate
can be two or three years that are studied in the country or abroad.

Door(s) with audio or video intercom: To have access to the apartment, you must communicate with
the Interphone, where the owner of the property must authorize his entry.

Dwelling: Space delimited by walls and covered by roofs of any material, with an independent entrance
intended to inhabit one or more houses, where generally its habitants eat, prepare their food, sleep
and protect themselves from whether.

Economic Activity: Set of actions that contribute to generate bid of goods and services, that may be or
not of a legal character, and are given in a framework of transactions (produce goods, and/or services
that intend to be sell and/or to be consumed and generate monetary and/or in-kind income) that imply
an agreement between parts. It includes activities for self-consumption linked to the primary sector
(agriculture, livestock, fishing, hunting, forestry, except the collection of firewood). Economic activities
cover production, consumption, trade and distribution aspects.
Economically active population (EAP): They are the persons who during the reference period carried
out or had an economic activity (occupied population) or actively sought to do so in the period of the
last month (unoccupied population)

Employee at home: is the person who works for a home, performing activities of the same. Example:
Maid, gardener, driver, cook, housekeeper, Butler, among others.

Extortion: A crime in which a person is forced to give money or something, or to tolerate anything (do
something or not), causing an economic injury, to his person, family or property, through written or
verbal threat.

Fence: Hedge, enclosed or boundary wall that surrounds a property.

Fire Gun: It is Any portable cannon gun that throws, meant to throw a pellet, bullet or a projectile
by the action of an explosive, excluding antique fire guns or its replicas.
Formal Education: It is the authorized, regulated and defined by the Ministry of Education. It is the one
that receives a person at the levels of pre-primary, primary, secondary and university. It includes
intermediate and technical careers at the university level and the normal schools of the Magisterium.

Formal house: Is all separate an independent enclosure that has been built, adapted or disposed to use
for housing of one or more homes, and at the moment of the survey it is not use totally for other
purposes. It’s characterized for the fact that the construction is surrounded by boundaries, walls,
fences, gardens or terrains, that separate a house from the other and has an independent entrance. It
also corresponds to this type of locals those which have a unique roof for one or more adjoining houses
and have exclusive services like water, electricity and toilet service.

Fraud: Obtain money or other benefits, or evasion of liabilities by misleading means or dishonest
conduct.

Furniture: Set of furniture in a house.

Gangs or maras: Group of persons (three or more) who can commit illegal, criminal or violent acts for
an economic benefit, territory control or as promotion of the same gang.

Gatehouse: It refers to a cement structure that precedes the entrance of the barriers or buildings.

Government employee: Is the person who works or have work for the central government,
municipalities, decentralized institutions, social security or public financial enterprises or not financial.
There are also considered as government employees, national people that work o worked for
extraterritorial organisms, such as: embassy, consulate, United Nations Organization (UNO) an all of its
outbuildings, as well as those receiving payments of funds from the government, even if they receive it
irregularly (employees of communal meetings, schools, deputies).

Governor: He is the representative of the Executive Body and therefore the President of the Republic
of Guatemala in every department of the country. They are the highest authority of the same, although
their competence respects the autonomy of each municipality and its municipality.

Grade: Refers to any of the school years of advancement within each level. In the case of the primary
level, the years go from first to sixth grade. This concept is also used as the state of advancement of the
person, within the secondary and higher educational levels.

Grievous bodily harm: Gunshot wounds; knife or stab wounds; amputated limbs; Broken bones or torn
teeth, internal injuries, unconscious, and other serious or critical injuries.

Habitual residence: Refers to the house in which the person surveyed is established.

Habitual resident: Is all person that eats and sleeps permanently in a house that he lives.

Harassment: Offensive misconduct geared toward a person by another person who knew reasonably
that the behavior was offensive. This includes objectionable or unacceptable behavior which humiliates
or causes personal humiliation or shame to an individual.

Head of household: It is the person, habitual resident of the household, recognized as such by the
other members of the household; Whether by the nature of their responsibilities, by the kind of
decisions it makes, by prestige, family relationship or kinship, or economic, social or cultural reasons. It
can be male or female.

Homicide: Is the illegal death inflicted to a person with the intention to cause death or severe injuries,
even when its deliberate and/ or treachery/malicious.

House burglary: Obtain access unauthorized to a part of a building /house and another local with or
without the use of force against the building/house to commit burglary.

House member: Person who resides in the particular dwelling, that is, who habitually eats or sleeps in
it and is held of a common expense. Guests and domestic workers and their families are excluded.

House/Home: A social unit conformed by a person or group of people who habitually reside in the
same particular house and who are associated to share their needs of accommodation, food and other
basic necessities for living, these people can Being united or not by kinship, but with the characteristic
that they cook in common in a permanent way, for all the members of the household, that is to say
that the members of the household eat of the same pot and sleep under the same roof. The home is
the set of people who live under the same roof and share at least the expenses in food. A single person
can also form a home.

Household respondent: Is the person of 18 or more years, that is a common resident of the house and
is part of the household and knows the characteristics of the house.
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Illiterate: Person who doesn’t how to read or write.

Indigenous community: People are considered indigenous by the fact of descending from populations
that lived in the country or in a geographical region to which it belongs at the time of the conquest, of
colonization or of the establishment of the current state borders and that whatever their legal status is
they retain their own social, economic, cultural and political institutions, or part of them.

Indigenous Mayoralty: Constitutes an instance of participation and solution of administrative

problems, as well as interpersonal and intergroup conflicts that occur in different communities. It also
serves as means of communication among the population with the authorities, specially with the
municipality (also called Ladin Municipality) as element of cohesion and representation of that
population and the coordination of the auxiliary mayors existing in the municipality.

Injury: Intentional or not intentional physical harm to the body, which produces when a human body is
suddenly liable to intolerant levels of thermic, mechanical, electric or chemical energy or due to
deterioration of the function as a result of the lack of one or more vital elements (i.e.,air, water, heat)
like drowning, strangulation or freezing.

Institutional Performance: Results that a public institution must generate through public policies that
rule the actions or governmental activities, which translate into paperwork, services or programs to
attend the needs or problems that affect society.

Institutions: entities that fulfill a function of public interest.

Insurance (of objects): It is a plan that offer certain banks or private institutions, by which a person (the
insurer) is obligated, by means of the collection of a premium, to indemnify within the agreed limits,
the assets of some prejudice or loss of the same ones like robbery, loss or breakdown. Depending on
the insurance plan, the good will be repaid, a stipulated amount will be payable or some kind of reward
will be given for the goods that suffered the injury.

Intellectual property: Inventions, literary or artistic work; and symbols, images and names used in
trade.

Jails: Sites that form part of the justice system, where persons who have been condemn for the
commission of one or more crimes are received and enclosed.

Janitor: Person hired to allow the access to a PH once the property owner authorized the access to his
house.
Judges and courts: They contemplate all the officials of the Judicial body exercising jurisdiction,
irrespective of their competence or category. The judges are in charge of administering and imparting
justice in an impartial and objective manner according to the guidelines of Political Constitution of the
Republic and national laws, while the courts are public bodies whose main purpose is to resolve
Litigation exercising its jurisdiction in: Supreme Court of Justice and its chambers; Court of Appeals;
Judiciary coordinating the jurisdiction of minors and juvenile courts; Contentious-administrative
Tribunal; Court of second instance of accounts; Military tribunals; Courts of first instance; Juvenile
courts; Courts of peace or minors and others who establish the law.

Kidnapping: Illegal withholding of a person or persons against their will (including through the use of
force, threats, fraud or seduction) in order to demand for their release an illicit gain, any other
economic gain or other material benefit, or to compel Someone to do or not to do something.

Knife or Affiliated Object: It is an instrument composed by a fixed blade and a handle.

Lamps or bulbs: The lighting system of a motor vehicle consists of the group of light fixtures mounted
or installed on the front, side or rear of a vehicle. Its purpose is to provide lighting to its driver in order
to operate the car safely in low visibility conditions, increasing the clarity of the vehicle and offering
other users of the way information on the presence, position, Size or direction of the vehicle and about
the driver's intentions in terms of direction and speed. For this survey, lamps are called to any of the
previous luminaires found outside the car.

Level/Academic level: It is understood as the state of advance reached by the person within his
primary, diversified, college or postgraduate studies.

Literate: It is considered a literate all person who knows how to read and write in Spanish or another
language a message, a sentence or a single paragraph. Remember, that the person who only knows
how to read or write his name or sign, must not be considered as literate, it must take into account
that a person who knows how to read or write a brief single sentence about life statements if he or she
declares to do it regardless of the language in which he does it (Mayan or English for example).

Makeshift home: Is defined as that independent construction of provisional character, built out of
waste materials (plastic, cardboard, sheet, lepa) without a preconceived plan, to use as bedroom of
one or more homes.
Marital Status: Is the situation of each person in relation to the laws or customs relating to marriage,
that exists in the country.

Market: Public place meant permanently, or in certain days, to sell, buy or trade goods and services.

Married: Person who has contracted civil or religious marriage.

Master: They have as a minimum requirement the completion of a university degree at the
undergraduate level. The mastery can be of different durations as one, two or three years that are
studied in the country or abroad and finally is given a title that accredits him as a teacher in a given
field.

Mayor: Highest authority of a municipality which is set to administrate it. The municipality along with
the mayor is composed by a municipal council, that is responsible for managing the municipal
resources.

Metal door: Complementary instrument in construction that is used to avoid the entrance, exit or to
separate stays, usually made of steel and aluminum.

Minor bodily injury: Includes bruises, cuts, scratches, splintered teeth, swelling, black eye, and other
minor injuries.

Mirror/rearview mirror: A rear-view mirror is a functional type of mirror that have car and other
vehicles, which are designed to allow the driver to see the area behind the vehicle through the rear
window.

Monitoring groups exercising control activities outside the law: they are intended to enforce norms of
behavior in the general population, control of the territory by exercising physical coercion and
punishment of transgressors, as well as the Imposition of a rudimentary tax collection system through
the practice of widespread extortion.

Motor bike: Two-wheeled car, with one or two saddles and sometimes with a side seat.

Motor vehicle theft: Illegal takeover or acquisition of a motor vehicle with the intention of
permanently or temporally depriving a person or organization without consent and without the use of
force, threatening, violence, coercion or deceive.

Motor vehicle: It refers to all motor vehicles that are propelled by an engine, including cars,
motorcycles, boats and aircraft.

Motor: An engine is the systematic part of a machine capable of operating the system, transforming
some type of energy (electrical, fossil fuels, etc.), into mechanical energy capable of doing a job. In
automobiles this effect is a force that produces movement.

Motorized Ground vehicle: covers all vehicles with motor that carry on streets, including cars,
motorcycles, buses, trucks, construction vehicles and agriculture.

Multiple victimization: An informant suffers a multiple victimization when suffers more than one type
of crime.
Municipal Development Council (MUDECO): Belongs to the Nacional System of Development of
Guatemala. Promotes, facilitates and supports the functioning of the Development Community
Councils of the municipalities, as well as the organization and participation of the community and
organizations.

Nacional Police of Transit: Guiding institution and guarantor of transit, security and road management
in Guatemala.

National Civilian Police: Is the armed security force of Guatemala, which is in charge of protecting the
public order as well as the civil security of the population.

Neighborhood: Each one of the parts that divide large towns and districts.

NGOs/non-governmental organization: It is any non-profitable group of voluntary citizens, which is

organized at a local, national or international level. With tasks oriented and directed by people with
common interests, who perform a variety of services and humanitarian duties. They also take citizens
problems to governments, oversee policies and promote participation in the community.

Non-kinship: Persons without kinship with the head of the household who for various reasons
(parents, godsons, friends, exchange students, etc.), equally defined as members of the household as
long as they eat and sleep on a regular basis within of the home.

Object used as weapon: Other means, that at minimum, includes blunt weapons, objects used as
weapons, bow and arrow, crossbow, launching weapons; objects, explosives, first or hand weapons,
martial arts weapons that are not equally as a knife or sharp object.

Occupation: Is the profession, job, or another type of work that the person exercised the week of
reference or the last time he worked.

Occupied population: Persons that during the week of reference carried out any type of economic
activity.

Ombudsman for human rights: Institution that promotes and defends respect for human rights
through actions of promotion, dissemination, procuring, mediation, education and supervision of the
state, following the rules of internal character, and in accordance with international standards in
matter of fundamental rights.
Other kinship: Includes siblings, whether they are foster or adopted, brother or sister-in-law, daughters
or sons, grandchildren or grandchildren, in-laws, godparents, godmothers, cousins, godsons; Both the
head of the house and his spouse, among others.

Parents: It refers to the parent head of the household living in the house.

Parts of a vehicle: Any item or replacement part specifically designated for a vehicle and is essential for
operation, including engines, transmission, rims and windows.

Passerby theft: It`s a crime against the patrimony, consisting in the seizure of the objects or a person
who transits in the street or in the public transport without his consent.

Patent: Exclusive right granted to an invention, while it is a product or a process that allows to do
something in a new way or, it offers a new technical solution to a problem.

Personal Experiences of victimization: Incidents that affect only a one person and that only the direct
victim could report to the survey.

Physical Barrier: Obstacle or hindrance that makes difficult the direct access to the door of the house.

Pick-up: Vehicle of transport, smaller than truck, with the rear uncovered.

Pre-primary Education: Refers to pre-school education, this education is given to children between five
and a half to six and a half years of age, is compulsory to enter the primary level. They are centers of
care or learning of children generally under 7 years, here are included: Pre-Kindergarten, kindergarten,
kindergarten and high school.

Preventive Measure: Any type of action, arrangement or physical installation in the home, that is taken
in advance to avoid a risk.

Primary Education: It is the one that assures the correct literacy, that is to say, that teaches to read,
write, basic calculus and some of the cultural concepts considered essential. Its purpose is to provide
all students with a common training that makes possible the development of individual motor
capacities, of personal equilibrium; of relationship and social action with the acquisition of the basic
cultural elements; The relative learning mentioned above. This type of education is compulsory for all
and all minors within the ages of seven (7) to twelve (12) years fulfilled.

Private Employee: Is the person who works for a private employer. In this category includes the
persons who received payments for work done per day. Example: agricultural pawns, bus secretaries,
construction workers, aides, among others.
Private Place: It’s a place used exclusively for personal purposes or private reunions to which the public
doesn`t have access.

Private vehicle: Term commonly used to refer to transportation services that are not available to the
general public; It differs from public transport in three respects: it is not subject to routes, it does not
depend on schedules, the speed is selection of travellers, for example, taxi, bicycle, motorcycle,
automobile.

Prostitution: Is the exchange of money or another forms remuneration for sexual activities.

Province: Each of the major dimensions of a territory or state, commonly subjected to an

administrative authority.

Public Ministry: Auxiliary Institution of the public administration and of the courts with autonomous
functions, whose principal aims are to ensure the strict fulfillment of the laws of the country, which is
described in the Political Constitution of the Republic of Guatemala in its article 251.

Public Place: It is an open place available for everyone.

Public safety: Under the mandate of the Ministry of the Interior, the institution responsible for
controlling common crime and organized crime is the National Civil Police (PNC). Regulated by an
organic law, the NCP is responsible for protecting the life, physical integrity, security of people and
their property, the free exercise of rights and freedoms, preventing, investigating crime and preserving
public order.

Public transport: Transport service of city that can be used for any person to move from a place to
another in exchange of money. This includes a variety of means such as, buses, trams, trains, metro,
ferries or cable car.

Ranch: It is a room with one or more rooms that has generally been built with natural materials from
the region, the walls are bajareque; Mud, straw, lepa, stick or reed and thatch, palm or similar roof not
importing the material from the floor. It is intended for the lodging of one more household, provided
that at the time of the survey it is not fully used for other purposes.

Rape: Sexual penetration without valid consent or without consent, as a result of intimidation, force,
fraud, coercion, threat, deceit, use of drugs or alcohol, abuse of power or a position of vulnerability, or
the delivery or receipt of benefits.

Recorded Crime: Criminal incident reported to competent authorities, usually the police, and which
has been included in the archives and categorized as a crime.

Reference period: Is the period that interest the survey, which would be used to report all statistic
information gathered in this tool.

Registered Trademark: Distinctive sign which identifies certain goods and services as the ones that
produces or provides a person or a specific enterprise.
Relation of kinship: It is the bond that the members of a particular home have with respect to the head
of the household. This may be based on ties of consanguinity, affinity or custom, adoption, work,
among others.

Repeat victimization: Repeated or serial victimization occurs when during a reference period an
informant reports having been the victim of the same crime with similarities in terms of nature or
circumstances. It differs from "multiple victimization."

Rims: wheels or rims are used to withstand the full weight of vehicles in conjunction with tires, and
also to withstand driving forces during acceleration, side forces during rotation of corners and other
forces. They are usually made of metal and is where the rubber tires are placed.

Room in Neighborhood House: It is a room built, adapted or arranged for the accommodation of as
many homes as rooms have said that building. Each room is characterized by a direct entrance from a
hallway, patio, corridor etc. Generally, these rooms have a communal water service, toilet and
bathroom.

Routine change: Is the change in the daily behavior of the persons in order to protect themselves and
prevent crime that implies the abandonment of certain social activities to reduce the possibilities of
being victims.

Scam: Is a type of fraud in which, through delusions, the criminal takes advantage of a person to deliver
money in exchange for receiving a good or service that is not delivered as agreed.

Scooter: Light motorcycle or moped, with small wheels, which has a platform to support the feet and a
protective iron on the front.

Secondary education (also referred to as middle school, second education, secondary education,
middle school, baccalaureate or Middle school): The objective is to train the student to pursue higher
studies or to join the Working world. This level of education has as prerequisite the approval of primary
education, and its time requirement for higher education.

Secondary Victimization: Is the one that occurs not as a direct result of a criminal act, but by the
response of institutions and individuals to the victim.

Sector: Refers to a space of territory containing a certain number of dwellings.

Security Guard Access Control: In order to have access to the house, it is necessary to present yourself
to a person in charge of the security of the property, to communicate with the residents of the House
so that they authorize your admission.

Selected Home: It is that house inside the selected that was chosen through a random selection
method, and it has been selected to provide information to the section A2.
Selected house: Is the one that through a sampling method has been chosen to apply the
questionnaire.

Selected informer: A member of the selected home of 18 or more years selected randomly. It will
provide information on perception of public safety, the performance of institutions and the
establishment of victimization experiences.

Self-employed person (without employees): Is the one who exploits his own economic company,
private business or farm, etc., or exercises or has exercised in an independent profession or trade and
has no employees in his charge. For example: Bus driver, peddler, dressmaker at home, shoe shiner,
farmer, Fisherman, among others.

Sense of Security: Is the impression that has the population about the situation of insecurity built
within personal experiences and vulnerability that the victim perceives from crime.

Separate from marriage: Person who lives separated from his wife or her husband and doesn’t live in
marital union.

Separated(a) from union: Person living separated from his/her partner and does not live in marital
union.

Sex: Biologic condition that distinguish persons from men and woman.

Sexual Assault: Unwanted Sexual act, intended to obtain a sexual act, contact or communication with
sexual intention not desired that does not result in rape.

Sexual penetration: Is the penetration of he vulva, anus, or mouth with any part of the body or object.

Shopping Centre/Mall: Complex or building in which a large number of shops are concentrated.

Single: Person who has never been married or have lived stable marital union.

Son/daughter: Refers to the children born of marriage or the consensual union, as well as stepsons,
and children adopted and foisted, living in the house.

Special locks and/or padlocks on the doors: Security devices that are used as portable locks in the
doors.

Spouse: It refers to the to the spouse or partner of the head of the house. This kinship allows any type
of marital relationship, in other words the couple may be married civilly, ecclesiastically or just be
joined.

Superior education: It is provided at universities and other specialized study centers where it is
required as a minimum condition to have approved the secondary level. This education is subdivided in
the following way: Undergraduate, master’s and doctorate.

Supermarket: Retail commercial establishment in which all kinds of foodstuffs, beverages, cleaning
products, etc., are sold, and in which the client pays at the exit.
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Taking justice into their own hands/lynching: Is an action through which citizens react directly against
who considered guilty of a crime, without the state mediation as administrator of justice. In other
words, punishments are applied directly, without parameters of proportionality or rigor in establishing
responsibility of the alleged offender. It is also called "Execution” and is equivalent to citizen approval
of the use of force to correct or to kill an offender. It is generally interpreted as the lack of trust or
inability on the part of the authorities to act as an intermediary and to apply the law correctly in the
possible disputes among the people.

Theft of goods or valuables in transit: During transportation in a vehicle.

Theft of vehicle or motor vehicle: Theft of a vehicle in transit to the person driving it or to its
passengers.

Theft/pickpocketing: Illegal takeover or acquisition of property with intention of permanently or

temporarily depriving a person or organization without consent and without the use of force, threat of
use of force or violence, coercion or deceit.

Theft/robber/steal: Illegal takeover or obtaining of property with use of force or threat of use of force
against a person, with the intention of depriving of it, in a permanent or temporary form, to a person.

Threat: Consists in intimidate someone with the warning of any kind of intentional behavior that
causes a harm or an injury to the person, relative or family. It is called threat to any kind of
intimidation if it is believed that it could become reality.
Transmission: It is the mechanism in charge of transmitting power between two or more elements
inside a car.

Truck: Vehicle of four or more wheels that is used to transport big loads.

Van: Vehicle smaller than the truck, that is used to carry any type of merchandise.

Vandalism or acts of vandalism: Is the set of violent acts which regardless of the material or
instrument used, can caused an impact on people, things or public services.

Vehicle: It is a device or structure for the transportation of people or things and includes cars,
motorcycles, trucks, buses, trains, boats, airplanes, horses, bicycles, tractors, etc.

Victim: Person who has suffer harm, including physical and mental, by carrying out his or her acts or
omissions that violate the penal laws in force.

Victimization Index: Measurement of the incident of victimization in a specific group of populations. It

can be calculated as a number by 100 by 1000 and be based on homes or individuals.

Victimization: A crime that affects a person or dwelling.

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Warehouse or commercial premises used as housing: Is a physical space that is not intended as
residential use, although is used as that, just like a garage, barn, warehouse, wagon, cave, etc.

Weapon: Instrument, means or machine intended or attack or defend itself.

Widower: A person who has died his or her spouse and has not remarried or lives in marital union.

Work: Persons who during the reference period have done some work for a salary or salary in cash or
in-kind.