MyData:What Is MyData? | Login/Account Info | Download Saved Files | Logout Description & Citation--Study No. 3260 | | | ICPSR Study No.: | 3260 |
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| | | Title: | Spatial Analysis of Crime in Appalachia [United States], 1977-1996 |
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| | | Principal Investigator(s): | James G. Cameron, United States Department of Justice, National Institute of Justice |
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| | | Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice. |
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| | | Grant Number: | 99-LT-VX-0001 |
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| | | Bibliographic Citation: | Cameron, James G. SPATIAL ANALYSIS OF CRIME IN APPALACHIA [UNITED STATES], 1977-1996 [Computer file]. ICPSR version. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Justice, National Institute of Justice [producer], 2001. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03260 |
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| | | | Summary: | This research project was designed to demonstrate the
contributions that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial
analysis procedures can make to the study of crime patterns in a
largely nonmetropolitan region of the United States. The project
examined the extent to which the relationship between various
structural factors and crime varied across metropolitan and
nonmetropolitan locations in Appalachia over time. To investigate the
spatial patterns of crime, a georeferenced dataset was compiled at the
county level for each of the 399 counties comprising the Appalachian
region. The data came from numerous secondary data sources, including
the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports, the
Decennial Census of the United States, the Department of Agriculture,
and the Appalachian Regional Commission. Data were gathered on the
demographic distribution, change, and composition of each county, as
well as other socioeconomic indicators. The dependent variables were
index crime rates derived from the Uniform Crime Reports, with
separate variables for violent and property crimes. These data were
integrated into a GIS database in order to enhance the research with
respect to: (1) data integration and visualization, (2) exploratory
spatial analysis, and (3) confirmatory spatial analysis and
statistical modeling. Part 1 contains variables for Appalachian
subregions, Beale county codes, distress codes, number of families and
households, population size, racial and age composition of population,
dependency ratio, population growth, number of births and deaths, net
migration, education, household composition, median family income,
male and female employment status, and mobility. Part 2 variables
include county identifiers plus numbers of total index crimes, violent
index crimes, property index crimes, homicides, rapes, robberies,
assaults, burglaries, larcenies, and motor vehicle thefts annually
from 1977 to 1996. |
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| | | Subject Term(s): | crime mapping, crime patterns, crime reporting, demographic characteristics, geographic information systems |
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| | | Geographic Coverage: | United States |
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| | | Time Period: | 1977 - 1996 |
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| | | Date(s) of Collection: | 1999 |
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| | | Unit of Observation: | Counties. |
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| | | Universe: | All counties comprising the Appalachian region. |
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| | | Data Type: | aggregate data |
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| | | Data Collection Notes: | The user guide and codebook are provided by ICPSR as a
Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed
by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader
software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to
obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR Web
site. |
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| | | | Data Source: | Data were obtained from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports, the Decennial Census of the
United States, the Department of Agriculture, and the Appalachian
Regional Commission. |
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| | | Mode of Data Collection: | Data were obtained from the Federal Bureau of
Investigation's Uniform Crime Reports, the Decennial Census of the
United States, the Department of Agriculture, and the Appalachian
Regional Commission. |
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| | | Response Rates: | Not applicable. |
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| | | Presence of Common Scales: | None. |
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| | | Extent of Processing: | Missing data codes were standardized by ICPSR.
ICPSR checked for undocumented codes, produced a codebook, generated
SAS and SPSS data definition statements, and reformatted the data. |
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| | | | Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the
summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the
file manifest. |
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| | | Original ICPSR Release: | 2001-10-01 |
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| | | Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2006-03-30. |
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| 2006-03-30 - File CB3260.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads. |
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| 2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one
or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well
as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable,
and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to
reflect these additions. |
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| | | Dataset(s): | - DS1: Demographic Data
- DS2: Crime Data
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