Workplace violence in victim surveys : same questions but different answers

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Abstract

An analysis based on a comparison of three Swedish victim surveys examines violence at work on the basis of the questions on exposure to threats and violence. The questions that are included are very similar in all three of surveys: Statistics Sweden's surveys of The Swedish population's living conditions (ULF), Swedish Work Environment Authority's survey The Work environment and Swedish National Council for Crime Prevention's survey The Swedish Crime Survey (NTU). However the prevalence's are very different. How can this be explained? ; Postdoc grant (FORTE): Violence and Threat Risk Assessment in three government agencies