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Description & Citation--Study No. 3484 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 3484 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03484 |
| Title: | Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), 2000: [United States] |
| Principal Investigator(s): | United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| Bibliographic Citation: | United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), 2000: [United States] [Computer file]. ICPSR03484-v4. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-07-08. doi:10.3886/ICPSR03484 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | To ensure an accurate sampling frame for its Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey, the Bureau of Justice Statistics periodically sponsors a census of the nation's state and local law enforcement agencies. This census, known as the Directory Survey, includes all state and local law enforcement agencies that are publicly funded and employ at least one full-time or part-time sworn officer with general arrest powers. As in previous years, the 2000 Directory Survey collected data on the number of sworn and nonsworn personnel employed by each agency, including both full-time and part-time employees. The pay period that included June 30, 2000, was the reference date for all personnel data. A 97.4 percent response rate was obtained from the 17,784 state and local law enforcement agencies operating in the United States. This data collection contains June 2000 data from the fourth Directory Survey. Previous directory censuses were conducted in 1986 (DIRECTORY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, 1986: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 8696]), 1992 (DIRECTORY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, 1992: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 2266]), and 1996 (DIRECTORY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, 1996: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 2260]). Variables include personnel totals, type of government, type of agency, and whether the agency had the legal authority to hold a person beyond arraignment for 48 or more hours. |
| Subject Term(s): | census data, law enforcement, police departments, police officers |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | 2000 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | June 2000 |
| Universe: | All police and sheriffs' departments that were publicly funded and employed at least one full-time or part-time sworn officer with general arrest powers. |
| Data Type: | census/enumeration data |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | inap. |
| Data Source: | self-enumerated forms |
Access and Availability | |
| 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. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 2002-10-02 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2009-07-08. |
| 2009-07-08 - Personal names, email addresses, IP or web addresses, and odd entries in V17 and V19 were masked. Telephone and fax numbers in V31 and V33 were also masked. | |
| 2003-05-09 - The data file has been replaced to correct errors in the previous release. The SAS and SPSS data definition statements were also updated. | |
| 2003-04-18 - The data file has been replaced to correct errors that appeared in the original file as submitted by the principal investigator. The variable "V1 State" had the data for Oklahoma and Oregon switched and the data for Michigan and Minnesota combined. The SAS and SPSS data definition statements were updated as well. | |
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