Crime has fallen to new record low levels in England and Wales, despite some increases as a result of changes in how police record incidents.
The official crime survey found there were seven million incidents in the year to September 2014 - down 11% on the previous 12 months.
Police recorded crime remained stable at 3.7 million incidents - but with rises in violence and sexual offences.
The Office for National Statistics says those rises relate to better recording.
The figures published on Thursday are the penultimate results before the general election in May. Official figures on crime are published every quarter and are drawn from two sources. The Crime Survey for England and Wales (CSEW) and incidents reported to the police and recorded by them.
The CSEW, which questions 35,000 people, estimates that crime is now at its lowest level since the rolling study began in 1981.
Last year, the national statistics watchdog said it could no longer approve figures recorded by the police because they were unreliable - prompting major revisions of how each force handles its figures.
The latest statistics appear to show that the review of police figures has led to a 16% rise in violence, a 10% rise in public order offences and a 22% rise in sexual offences.
Statisticians say police recorded 24,000 rapes and almost 49,000 other sexual offences - the highest numbers since comparable records began in 2002-03. The ONS said these rises were thought to be down to the improvements in how police were recording crimes and a greater willingness of victims to come forward than before.
The quarterly figures show there was 5% increase in recorded fraud to around 212,000 incidents - four times the rate of robbery in England and Wales and roughly three times more incidents than the number of stolen cars. Experts think fraud remains substantially under-reported.
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