Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS): 2003 Sample Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies (ICPSR 4411)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Summary:
The Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey collects data from a nationally representative sample of publicly funded State and local law enforcement agencies in the United States. Data include agency personnel, expenditures and pay, operations, community policing initiatives, equipment, computers and information systems, and written policies. The LEMAS survey has been conducted in 1987, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1999 (limited scope), 2000, and 2003.
Series: Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) Series
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United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS): 2003 Sample Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies . ICPSR04411-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-05-10. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04411.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04411.v1
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Scope of Study
Subject Terms: administration, budgets, law enforcement, law enforcement agencies, management, personnel, police departments, statistical data, wages and salaries, workers
Geographic Coverage: United States
Time Period:
- 2003
Date of Collection:
- 2003
Universe: Publicly funded state and local law enforcement agencies in the United States in 2003.
Data Types: survey data
Methodology
Sample: For sampling purposes, the law enforcement agencies were separated into two groups: self-representing (SR) and non-self-representing (NSR) agencies. All state police or agencies with 100 or more sworn full-time equivalent (FTE) employees are SR. All remaining agencies in sheriff's department, local police, and special police categories are NSR.
Mode of Data Collection: self-enumerated questionnaire
Extent of Processing: 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:
- Standardized missing values.
- Created online analysis version with question text.
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Original ICPSR Release: 2006-05-10
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