Social Correlates of Official Index Crime Rates for States, SMSAs, and Cities [United States]: A Macro-Level Dataset for 1950, 1960, 1970, and 1980 (ICPSR 6151)

Version Date: Jan 18, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Lawrence E. Cohen; Kenneth C. Land

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06151.v1

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Summary

These data provide official index crime rates and social and economic indicators of crime rates at three levels of aggregation (city, state, and metropolitan areas) for four decennial years: 1950, 1960, 1970, and 1980. Information is provided on Uniform Crime Reports murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny theft, and vehicle theft rates per 100,000 population. Social and economic indicators include percent black population, percent divorced males, the mean and median family incomes, families below the poverty line, and percent unemployed for each area. The availability of the data for the crime rates in 1980 determined the geographic locations included in the data collection. Data from earlier years do not exist for all geographic locations for which data were available in 1980.

Citation

Cohen, Lawrence E., and Land, Kenneth C. Social Correlates of Official Index Crime Rates for States, SMSAs, and Cities [United States]:  A Macro-Level Dataset for 1950, 1960, 1970, and 1980. [distributor], 2006-01-18. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06151.v1

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Funding

National Science Foundation (SES8217865)

Subject Terms

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Data Collection Notes

  1. The codebook is provided as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided through the ICPSR Website on the Internet.

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Data Source

(1) United States Census of Population and Housing (Parts B and C) for 1950, 1960, 1970, and 1980, and (2) Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports for 1950, 1960, 1970, and 1980

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Original Release Date

1999-12-14

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:
  • Cohen, Lawrence E., and Kenneth C. Land. SOCIAL CORRELATES OF OFFICIAL INDEX CRIME RATES FOR STATES, SMSAS, AND CITIES [UNITED STATES]: A MACRO-LEVEL DATASET FOR 1950, 1960, 1970, AND 1980. ICPSR version. Austin, TX: Lawrence E. Cohen and Kenneth C. Land, University of Texas at Austin, Population Research Center/Raleigh, NC: Patricia L. McCall, North Carolina State University, Dept. of Sociology [producers], 1991. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06151.v1

2006-01-18 File CB6151.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.

1999-12-14 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.