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Firearms (2019/2020) 8.1

SAINT LUCIA NATIONAL CRIME VICTIMIZATION SURVEY 2020 (SLNCVS). Basic tables.	Table 8.1
Estimated percentage of households that own at least one firearm 1*
September to December 2019
Geographic area	Estimated percentage of households that own at least one firearm 1*



SAINT LUCIA	10.8
NORTH (CASTRIES AND GROS ISLET)	12.7
SOUTH (REMAINING DISTRICTS)	9.1
1* This estimate is based in a methodology called Network Scale Up Method (NSUM), used by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). It refers to the calculations of questions E01, E02 and E03 of the questionnaire, where the respondent indicated the number (from 0 to 5) of households he/she knew had a firearm. No personal information was provided by the respondent other than the number of the identified households.
Note 1: The estimates that appear in this tabulation are shadowed according to their level of precision in High, Moderate and Low, taking the Coefficient of Variation CV (%) as a reference. If the values are closer to 0 it indicates the estimate is more precise and vice versa. Moderate and Low precision requires a cautious use of the estimates in which the causes of high variability are analyzed and other indicators of precision and reliability are considered, such as the confidence interval. See table below for level of precision of the estimates:
High: Indicates a CV (%) on a range of (0, 25)
Moderate: Indicates a CV (%) on a range of (25, 50)
Low: Indicates a CV (%) on a range of (50+)
Source: SLNCVS. Saint Lucia National Crime Victimization Survey, 2020.