Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 2012 (ICPSR 34881)
Version Date: Aug 20, 2015 View help for published
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Federal Judicial Center
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34881.v2
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The purpose of this data collection is to provide an official public record of the business of the federal courts. The data originate from district and appellate court offices throughout the United States. Information was obtained at two points in the life of appellate and civil cases: filing and termination. The termination data (archived in this data collection) contain information on both filing and terminations, while the pending data (archived as a separate data collection) contain only filing information on the most recent pending cases. The unit of analysis for the appellate and civil terminations data is the case. This collection also contains data on criminal cases in federal courts. However, the unit of analysis for the criminal data is the defendant, and a defendant can be included in several cases.
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Access to these BJS-sponsored data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a NACJD Restricted Data Use Agreement available from the ResearchDataGov website, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.
Restricted Data Use Agreements available on the NACJD website are provided for reference only. Please visit the ResearchDataGov website to download the appropriate Restricted Data Use Agreement and submit your request. Once approved, data may be accessed from a requester secure site via ICPSR's secure download procedures.
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Starting with the year 2001, each year of data for Federal Court Cases Integrated Data Base is released by ICPSR as a separate study number. Data for the years 1970-2000 can be found in FEDERAL COURT CASES: INTEGRATED DATA BASE, 1970-2000 (ICPSR 8429).
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Starting with year 2008, the appellate pending and civil pending data are archived as a separate data collection.
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All federal court cases in the United States in 2012.
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administrative records
computerized court records
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2014-03-18
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- Federal Judicial Center. Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base, 2012. ICPSR34881-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2015-08-20. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34881.v2
2015-08-20 The civil data (Part 3 and 4) were updated with new data supplied by the principal investigators.
2014-03-18 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:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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