National Corrections Reporting Program, 1983 (ICPSR 8363)

Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Summary:

Series: National Corrections Reporting Program (NCRP) Series

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United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. National Corrections Reporting Program, 1983. ICPSR08363-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-04-23. doi:10.3886/ICPSR08363.v2

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08363.v2

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This survey was funded by:

• United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Subject Terms:   correctional facilities, correctional system, demographic characteristics, jail inmates, national crime statistics (USA), offenders, offenses, parole, prison inmates, probation, state correctional facilities

Geographic Coverage:   United States

Time Period:  

• 1983

Date of Collection:  

• 1983-01-01--1983-12-31

Universe:   All persons incarcerated in prisons in the United States.

Data Types:   administrative records data, event/transaction data, survey data

Sample:   All persons incarcerated in state prisons in 32 states.

Data Source:

official prison records of prisoner population movement

Extent of Processing:  ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

• Performed consistency checks.
• Standardized missing values.
• Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
• Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Original ICPSR Release:  1986-06-06

Version History:

• 2010-04-23 The entire NCRP series is being re-released in restricted format.
• 2006-01-18 File SP8363.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
• 2006-01-18 File SA8363.ALL was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
• 2006-01-18 File CB8363.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
• 1997-08-01 The data have been checked for wild or invalid codes, and the codebook and SAS and SPSS data definition statements now document these codes. In addition, the codebook is now available as a PDF file only, and the variable and value labels have been expanded. The data file comprising the former Part 1, which was a concatenation of Parts 2, 3, and 4, has been removed and the parts have been renumbered.

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