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Description & Citation--Study No. 4288

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

04288

Title:

Traffic Stop Data Collection Policies for State Police, 2004

Principal Investigator(s):

United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics

Bibliographic Citation:

United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Traffic Stop Data Collection Policies for State Police, 2004. ICPSR04288-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-09-02. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04288.v1

Scope of Study

Summary:

This collection contains survey data collected at the end of October 2004 from the 49 state law enforcement agencies in the United States that had traffic patrol responsibility. Information was gathered about their policies for recording race and ethnicity data for persons in traffic stops, including the circumstances under which demographic data should be collected for traffic-related stops and whether such information should be stored in an electronically accessible format. The survey was not designed to obtain available agency databases containing traffic stop records.

Subject Terms:

ethnic identity, ethnicity, police patrol, policies and procedures, race, traffic offenses

Smallest Geographic Unit:

state

Geographic Coverage:

United States

Time Period:
  • 2004

Date of Collection:
  • 2004-10

Unit of Observation:

agency

Universe:

State law enforcement agencies in the United States with traffic patrol responsibility.

Data Types:

survey data

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:

self-enumerated questionnaire

Extent of Processing:

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive 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, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

2005-09-02