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City Police Expenditures, 1946-1985: [United States] (ICPSR 8706)
Principal Investigator(s): Triplett, Ruth, et al.
Summary: This study examines police expenditures for selected cities for an extended period of time. The data set contains one variable per year for each of the following items: total general expenditures, expenditure for police protection, deflated general expenditures adjusted for inflation, deflated police expenditures adjusted for inflation, residential population, land area, patterns of population change during the study period, government identification, and implicit price deflators of... (more info)
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Citation
Triplett, Ruth et al. CITY POLICE EXPENDITURES, 1946-1985. College Park, MD: University of Maryland, Institute of Criminal Justice and Criminology [producer], 1987. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1987. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08706.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08706.v1
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Scope of Study
Summary: This study examines police expenditures for selected cities for an extended period of time. The data set contains one variable per year for each of the following items: total general expenditures, expenditure for police protection, deflated general expenditures adjusted for inflation, deflated police expenditures adjusted for inflation, residential population, land area, patterns of population change during the study period, government identification, and implicit price deflators of goods and services.
Subject Terms: crime, crime prevention, expenditures, government services, local government, municipal expenditures, police protection, public expenditures
Geographic Coverage: United States
Universe: Cities in the United States.
Data Types: aggregate data
Methodology
Sample: All cities that had 50,000 or more residents in 1940 or entered that size class during the study period. All towns and townships in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Jersey and Pennsylvania were included.
Data Source:
ICPSR public-use tapes, United States Bureau of the Census population estimates, and United States Bureau of the Census Area and Geographic reports
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 1987-10-12
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