The National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS):

a. is conducted by the FBI every year to gather information for its Uniform Crime Reports.
b. interviews national samples of about 150,000 respondents in about 80,000 households every year.
c. is carried out every ten years by the U.S. Bureau of the Census.
d. was a study of 5,000 Americans carried out in 1984.


Answer: b

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