Table 6 Benefits of PSCs to the household/community by SE status
From: An assessment of households’ perceptions of private security companies and crime in urban Ghana
Benefits | Community SE status | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Low | Middle | High | Total | |
Created jobs | 22.1 | 23.6 | 22.9 | 23.1 |
Improved household security | 15.4 | 24.6 | 22.3 | 22.5 |
Improved community security | 18.3 | 16.3 | 20.2 | 18.2 |
Improved industrial/commercial security | 17.3 | 14.0 | 19.1 | 16.6 |
Improved crime prevention efforts | 18.3 | 11.9 | 9.0 | 11.4 |
Complimented police efforts | 7.7 | 7.0 | 4.9 | 6.2 |
Other | 1.0 | 2.3 | 1.5 | 2.0 |
Total | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |