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Description & Citation--Study No. 8871 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 8871 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08871 |
| Title: | National Survey of Jails: Jurisdiction-Level and Jail-Level Data, 1986 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics |
| Series: | Annual Survey of Jails: Jurisdiction-Level Data Series |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. |
| Bibliographic Citation: | U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. NATIONAL SURVEY OF JAILS: JURISDICTION-LEVEL AND JAIL-LEVEL DATA, 1986 [Computer file]. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1997. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08871 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This data collection provides annual data on jail populations across the nation and examines the "spillover" effect on local jails resulting from the dramatic growth in federal and state prison populations. These data permit an assessment of the demands placed on correctional resources. Information is available on the number of inmates by sex, race, adult or juvenile status, reason being held, and cause of death. |
| Subject Term(s): | correctional facilities, correctional system, demographic characteristics, jail inmates, jails, overcrowding effects, population characteristics, probation |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | 1986 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | July 1986 - December 1986 |
| Universe: | All locally administered county and municipal jails in the United States. |
| Data Type: | survey data |
| Data Collection Notes: | The Census Bureau used a nine-digit Government Identification number to identify each jail uniquely. This variable has been broken up into four different variables. Users of the data will have to combine these four variables in order to identify a particular jail. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | Stratified random sample of local jails based on the 1983 Jail Census. |
| 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: | 1988-07-15 |
| Version History: | The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04. |
| 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. | |
| 1997-05-30 - SAS and SPSS data definition statements for the logical record length version of the data have been added to this collection, and the codebook was reformatted to reinstate truncated lines. | |
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