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Description & Citation--Study No. 3484 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 3484 |
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| 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: | U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. CENSUS OF STATE AND LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES (CSLLEA), 2000: [UNITED STATES] [Computer file]. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 3rd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2003. |
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 officers, police departments |
| 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 |
| Data Collection Notes: | The codebook and data collection instrument 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. |
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 2003-05-09. |
| 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. | |
