The Source for Crime and Justice Data

Description & Citation--Study No. 4715

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

4715

Title:

Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Arrests by Age, Sex, and Race, 2005

Alternate Title:

ASR, 2005

Principal Investigator(s):

United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Funding:

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

Bibliographic Citation:

United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Arrests by Age, Sex, and Race, 2005. ICPSR04715-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-07-13. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04715.v1

Series:

Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data Series

Scope of Study

Summary:

These data provide information on the number of arrests reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program each year by police agencies in the United States. These arrest reports provide data on 43 offenses including violent crime, drug use, gambling, and larceny. The data received by ICPSR were structured as a hierarchical file containing (per reporting police agency) an agency header record, 1 to 12 monthly header records, and 1 to 43 detail offense records containing the counts of arrests by age, sex, and race for a particular offense. ICPSR restructured the original data to a rectangular format.

Subject Terms:

arrests, arson, assault, auto theft, burglary, counties, crime rates, crime reporting, crime statistics, drug abuse, fraud, illegal gambling, larceny, law enforcement, murder, offenses, rape, robbery, sex offenses, Uniform Crime Reports, vandalism, weapons

Geographic Coverage:

United States

Time Period:
  • 2005

Date of Collection:
  • 2005

Universe:

Arrests reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Uniform Crime Reporting program.

Data Types:

aggregate data

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:

mail questionnaire

Extent of Processing:

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive 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, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Standardized missing values.
  • Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

2007-07-13