National Survey of Indigent Defense Systems (NSIDS), 1999 United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics court cases defendants defense (law) defense counsel legal representation legal systems policies and procedures public defenders ICPSR.XVII.E NACJD.V This survey collected nationwide data in order to: (1) identify the number and characteristics of publicly financed indigent defense systems and agencies in the United States, (2) measure how legal services were provided to indigent criminal defendants in terms of caseloads, workloads, policies, and practices, and (3) describe the types of offenses handled by indigent defense system organizations. The study was initially designed to permit measurable statistical estimates at the national level for each region of the United States, for individual states, and for the 100 most populous counties, including the District of Columbia. However, due to resource and financial constraints, the study was scaled back to collect indigent criminal defense data at the trial level for (1) the 100 most populous counties, (2) 197 counties outside the 100 most populous counties, and (3) states that entirely funded indigent criminal defense services. 2006-01-18 survey data 3081 10.3886/ICPSR03081.v1 self-enumerated questionnaires United States 1999--2000 ICPSR metadata records are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/us/).