Online scam and bank card fraud are ranked second in the Russian rating of fears of crime.

MOSCOW, June 3, 2016.  Russian Public Opinion Research Centre (VCIOM) presents the data of the survey devoted to the Russian fear of crimes as well as crimes Russians have already faced.

Most of Russians have fears related to criminal activities,
however only one-third of Russians has been victims of these crimes. They are most concerned about terrorist attacks (mentioned by 34%), at the same time, 1% has experienced them.

Most justified fears are fear of being a victim of a road traffic accident (21%) or online scam as well as bank card fraud (21%); the share of those who have already faced these types of crime are 13% and 8% of respondents, respectively.

More than 10% of survey respondents are afraid of being a victim of identity fraud (16%), being robbed (15%), or being a victim of a house break-in (14%); fourteen percent are afraid of being attacked by ruffians, etc. Thirteen percent have a fear of being murdered.

The VCIOM opinion polls were conducted in May 28-29, in 130 settlements, 46 regions and 9 federal districts of Russia. Sample size for each survey was 1600 persons. The surveys were conducted with multi-stage stratified sample based on general rule of walking and quotas at the final selection stage; the sample is representative of the Russian population aged 18 and over according to sex, age, education, type of settlement.  The margin of error (taking into account the design effect) with 95% confidence interval does not exceed 3.5%. The survey method is community-based formalized face-to-face interviews. Apart from the margin of error, minor changes in question wording and different circumstances arising during the field work should be taken into account.

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