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Missing Data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR), 1977-2000 [United States]

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Principal Investigator(s): Targonski, Joseph

Summary: This study reexamined and recoded missing data in the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) for the years 1977 to 2000 for all police agencies in the United States. The principal investigator conducted a data cleaning of 20,067 Originating Agency Identifiers (ORIs) contained within the Offenses-Known UCR data from 1977 to 2000. Data cleaning involved performing agency name checks and creating new numerical codes for different types of missing data including missing data codes that identify whether a reco... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR32061.v1

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