Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 1996 (ICPSR 4305)

Version Date: Apr 13, 2011

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Principal Investigator(s):
Federal Judicial Center

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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04305.v1

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Summary

The purpose of this data collection is to provide an official public record of the business of the federal bankruptcy courts. The data include all petitions filed under the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Courts on or after October 1, 1993, and any petitions filed before October 1, 1993, that were still pending on that date. The records are organized according to the fiscal year of termination with cases still pending at the end included in a separate pending dataset. For the bankruptcy data, the unit of analysis is a single case.

Citation

Federal Judicial Center. Federal Court Cases:  Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 1996. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-04-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04305.v1

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Funding

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

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

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.

Distributor(s)

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

1996

Date of Collection

1996
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Universe

All federal bankruptcy court cases in the United States in 1996.

Unit(s) of Observation

A single case

Data Source

Administrative records

Computerized court records

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

2005-09-22

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:
  • Federal Judicial Center. Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 1996. ICPSR04305-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-04-13. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04305.v1

2011-04-13 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.

2005-09-22 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.
  • 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.

  • One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.