NZCVS Cycle 8 resources and results

NZCVS 2025 (Cycle 8) Key Results 

This report highlights the main findings from Cycle 8 of the New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey (NZCVS) conducted between October 2024 and October 2025. The report contains mostly descriptive statistics of trends for key offence types and perceptions of the justice system by demographic groups.

NZCVS Key Results 2025 (Cycle 8) [PDF, 9.7 MB]

NZCVS 2025 (Cycle 8) Formatted Data Tables 

These formatted data tables provide more comprehensive coverage of the subjects discussed in the Key Results report, summarising data collected for NZCVS Cycles 1 through 8 (2018-2025). All tables are in Microsoft Excel (xlsx) format and provide information about data accuracy. 

NZCVS 2025 (Cycle 8) How much crime [XLSX, 43 KB]

NZCVS 2025 (Cycle 8) Who is experiencing crime [XLSX, 77 KB]

NZCVS 2025 (Cycle 8) Sexual violence and family offences [XLSX, 72 KB]

NZCVS 2025 (Cycle 8) Perception of Safety [XLSX, 85 KB]

NZCVS 2025 (Cycle 8) Reporting to Police [XLSX, 71 KB]

NZCVS 2025 (Cycle 8) Methodology Report

The Methodology Report describes in detail the design and methods used in the NZCVS. This Report includes, but is not limited to, detailed information on NZCVS research objectives, sampling, questionnaire development and testing, fieldwork processes and statistics, offence coding, data processing, weighting, imputation and producing analyses. 

NZCVS 2025 Methodology Report (Cycle 8) [PDF, 4.1 MB]

NZCVS 2025 (Cycle 8) Questionnaire

The NZCVS Cycle 8 Questionnaire outlines all the questions presented to respondents in the survey between October 2024 and October 2025. It also explains the survey logic used to determine which questions were asked. This questionnaire also includes the questions from the NZCVS Police Module.

NZCVS 2025 Questionnaire (Cycle 8) [PDF, 1.5 MB]

Other Resources 

Media releases:

New Zealand Crime and Victims Survey released