The Source for Crime and Justice Data

Description & Citation--Study No. 6545

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

6545

Title:

Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, 1993

Principal Investigator(s):

United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation

Bibliographic Citation:

U.S. Dept. of Justice, Federal Bureau of Investigation. UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING PROGRAM DATA [UNITED STATES]: COUNTY-LEVEL DETAILED ARREST AND OFFENSE DATA, 1993. 1995. ICPSR06545-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 2008-10-30. doi:10.3886/ICPSR06545.v1

Series:

Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data Series

Scope of Study

Summary:

This data collection contains county-level counts of arrests and offenses for Part I offenses (murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft, and arson) and Part II offenses (forgery, fraud, embezzlement, vandalism, weapons violations, sex offenses, drug and alcohol abuse violations, gambling, vagrancy, curfew violations, and runaways). Two sets of county populations are reported: one for total county population and the other for counties reporting six months or more of data.

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

Geographic Coverage:

United States

Time Period:
  • 1993

Date of Collection:
  • 1993

Universe:

County law enforcement agencies in the United States.

Data Types:

aggregate data

Data Collection Notes:

Data have been aggregated to the county level. Within each county, data for agencies reporting 6 to 11 months of information were weighted to yield 12-month equivalents. Agencies reporting fewer than 6 months of data were excluded from the aggregation. Data from agencies reporting only statewide figures were allocated to counties in proportion to each county's share of the state population (which totaled the populations of those county agencies reporting 6 months or more of data).

Methodology

Mode of Data Collection:

self-enumerated 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:

1995-12-20

Version History:

  • 2008-10-30 Corrections were made to the data and setups in Part 4, with relevent changes made to the codebook.

  • 2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 9 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

  • 2005-11-04 On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.

Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Arrests, All Ages
  • DS2: Arrests, Adult
  • DS3: Arrests, Juveniles
  • DS4: Crimes Reported
  • DS5: Allocated Statewide Data for Arrests, All Ages
  • DS6: Allocated Statewide Data for Arrests, Adults
  • DS7: Allocated Statewide Data for Arrests, Juveniles
  • DS8: Allocated Statewide Data for Crimes Reported
  • DS9: Codebook for All Parts
  • DS10: SPSS Data Definition Statements for Arrests Data
  • DS11: SPSS Data Definition Statements for Crimes Reported Data
  • DS12: SAS Data Definition Statements for Arrests Data
  • DS13: SAS Data Definition Statements for Crimes Reported Data