Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), 2000: [United States] (ICPSR 3484)

Version Date: Jul 8, 2009

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

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03484.v4

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Summary

To ensure an accurate sampling frame for its Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey, the Bureau of Justice Statistics periodically sponsors a census of the nation's state and local law enforcement agencies. This census, known as the Directory Survey, includes all state and local law enforcement agencies that are publicly funded and employ at least one full-time or part-time sworn officer with general arrest powers. As in previous years, the 2000 Directory Survey collected data on the number of sworn and nonsworn personnel employed by each agency, including both full-time and part-time employees. The pay period that included June 30, 2000, was the reference date for all personnel data. A 97.4 percent response rate was obtained from the 17,784 state and local law enforcement agencies operating in the United States. This data collection contains June 2000 data from the fourth Directory Survey. Previous directory censuses were conducted in 1986 (DIRECTORY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, 1986: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 8696]), 1992 (DIRECTORY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, 1992: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 2266]), and 1996 (DIRECTORY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, 1996: [UNITED STATES] [ICPSR 2260]). Variables include personnel totals, type of government, type of agency, and whether the agency had the legal authority to hold a person beyond arraignment for 48 or more hours.

Citation

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), 2000: [United States]. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-07-08. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03484.v4

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Funding

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

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

2000

Date of Collection

2000-06
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Sample

inap.

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All police and sheriffs' departments that were publicly funded and employed at least one full-time or part-time sworn officer with general arrest powers.

Data Source

self-enumerated forms

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Original Release Date

2002-10-02

Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA), 2000: [United States]. ICPSR03484-v4. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-07-08. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR03484.v4

2009-07-08 Personal names, email addresses, IP or web addresses, and odd entries in V17 and V19 were masked. Telephone and fax numbers in V31 and V33 were also masked.

2003-05-09 The data file has been replaced to correct errors in the previous release. The SAS and SPSS data definition statements were also updated.

2003-04-18 The data file has been replaced to correct errors that appeared in the original file as submitted by the principal investigator. The variable "V1 State" had the data for Oklahoma and Oregon switched and the data for Michigan and Minnesota combined. The SAS and SPSS data definition statements were updated as well.

2002-10-02 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.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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Notes

  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.