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Description & Citation--Study No. 8608

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:8608
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08608
 
Title:National Crime Surveys: National Sample, 1979-1987 [Revised Questionnaire]
 
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. NATIONAL CRIME SURVEYS: NATIONAL SAMPLE, 1979-1987 [REVISED QUESTIONNAIRE] [Computer file]. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 7th ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2004. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08608
 

Scope of Study

Summary:The purpose of the National Crime Surveys is to provide data on the level of crime victimization in the United States and to collect data on the characteristics of crime incidents and victims. Information about each household and personal victimization was recorded. The data include type of crime, description of the offender, severity of crime, injuries or losses, and demographic characteristics of household members.
 
Subject Term(s):census data, crime, criminal justice system, demographic characteristics, households, neighborhoods, offenses, victimization, victims, violent crime
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1979 - 1987
 
Date(s) of Collection:1979 - 1988
 
Universe:All persons in the United States 12 years of age and older.
 
Data Type:survey data
 
Data Collection Notes:The National Crime Surveys data are organized by collection quarter, and six quarters comprise an annual file. For example, for the 1979 file the four quarters of 1979 are included, as well as the first two quarters of 1980.
 
  Parts 1-7 as well as Parts 17 and 19 are hierarchically structured, with four levels. The first level, the household ID, has a logical record length of 54 characters and contains 8 variables. The second level, the household, has a logical record length of 204 with 89 variables. The third, or person, level has a logical record length of 142 and 57 variables, and the final level, the incident level, has a logical record length of 481 with 327 variables. The case counts per level are as follows: household level: 178,324 to 217,814 per part, person level: 316,094 to 393,685 per part, incident level: 28,564 to 43,959 per part. The person-level files contain data on all victims with a maximum of four incidents each, and a 10-percent sample of non-victims. The unit of analysis is the victim.
 
  The subset of rape cases includes attempts and completed rapes.
 
  The codebooks and data collection instrument for this collection are provided by ICPSR as Portable Document Format (PDF) files. 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:Stratified multistage cluster sample.
 
Data Source:personal interviews
 

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:1987-06-26
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2004-06-17.
 
  2004-06-17 - All OSIRIS dictionaries have been replaced with SAS and SPSS data definition statements and PDF codebooks. Part 15 and parts 31 through 36 have been removed. Case counts for Parts 10, 28, and 29 have been corrected and the codebooks have been revised to reflect these changes.
 
  2000-09-29 - SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been added for Part 30, 1979-1987 Rape Subset, All Rape Cases, Incident-Level, Bounded by Calendar Year. Also, the data collection instrument was converted to a Portable Document Format (PDF) file and the codebooks are now available as PDF files as well.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: 1979 Full File
  • DS2: 1980 Full File
  • DS3: 1981 Full File
  • DS4: 1982 Full File
  • DS5: 1983 Full File
  • DS6: 1984 Full File
  • DS7: 1985 Full File
  • DS8: 1979 Incident File
  • DS9: 1980 Incident File
  • DS10: 1981 Incident File
  • DS11: 1982 Incident File
  • DS12: 1983 Incident File
  • DS13: 1984 Incident File
  • DS14: 1985 Incident File
  • DS16: 1979-1987 Incident-Level Concatenated File, All Victims, Bounded by Calendar Year
  • DS17: 1986 Full File
  • DS18: 1986 Incident File
  • DS19: 1987 Full File
  • DS20: 1987 Incident File
  • DS21: 1979 Person, All Victims for Up to Four Incidents, 10-Percent Sample, Non-Victims
  • DS22: 1980 Person, All Victims for Up to Four Incidents, 10-Percent Sample, Non-Victims
  • DS23: 1981 Person, All Victims for Up to Four Incidents, 10-Percent Sample, Non-Victims
  • DS24: 1982 Person, All Victims for Up to Four Incidents, 10-Percent Sample, Non-Victims
  • DS25: 1983 Person, All Victims, for Up to Four Incidents, 10-Percent Sample, Non-Victims
  • DS26: 1984 Person, All Victims, for Up to Four Incidents, 10-Percent Sample, Non-Victims
  • DS27: 1985 Person, All Victims, for Up to Four Incidents, 10-Percent Sample, Non-Victims
  • DS28: 1986 Person, All Victims, for Up to Four Incidents, 10-Percent Sample, Non-Victims
  • DS29: 1987 Person, All Victims, for Up to Four Incidents, 10-Percent Sample, Non-Victims
  • DS30: 1979-1987 Rape Subset, All Rape Cases, Incident-Level, Bounded by Calendar Year
 

 

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