Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 2004 (ICPSR 4572)
Principal Investigator(s): United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics
Summary: This survey provides nationally representative data on inmates held in state prisons and federally-owned and operated prisons. Through personal interviews conducted from October 2003 through May 2004, inmates in both state and federal prisons provided information about their current offense and sentence, criminal history, family background and personal characteristics, prior drug and alcohol use and treatment programs, gun possession and use, and prison activities, programs, and services. Prior ... (more info)
Series: Survey of Inmates of State and Federal Correctional Facilities Series
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To protect respondent privacy, certain identifying information is restricted from general dissemination. The restricted variables and their labels are:
- V0047 S1Q4A_2: COUNTRY OF BIRTH
- V0048 S1Q4ACOD: COUNTRY OF BIRTH - RECODED
- V0050 S1Q4A_NON: COUNTRY OF BIRTH - MORE
- V0053 S1Q4C_2: CITIZEN - OTHER
- V0054 S1Q4CCOD: COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP - OTHER
- V0056 S1Q4C_NON: COUNTRY OF CITIZENSHIP - MORE
- V2603 STRATUM: SPI SAMPLING STRATUM
- V2604 SAMPTYP: SAMPLE TYPE (CHECK DIGIT - CKDIGIT)
- V2609 CENSUSCNT: MALE AND FEMALE POPULATION 2000 CENSUS OF PRISONS
- V2610 FINALCNT: MALE AND FEMALE POPULATION AT TIME OF INTERVIEW
- V2612 DRUGSAMP: DRUG/NON-DRUG OFFENSE SAMPLE (FEDERAL INMATES ONLY)
- V2613 TOTALPOP: TOTAL POPULATION FROM 2000 CENSUS OF PRISONS
- V2929 P_SAMP: # OF PRISONS SAMPLED IN STRATUM
- V2930 I_INT: # OF INMATES SAMPLED (INTERVIEWS ONLY) IN STRATUM
- V2931 I_SAMP: INTRVWS AND TYPE A NON-INTRVWS IN STRATUM
- V2932 P_UNIV: # OF PRISONS IN UNIVERSE WITHIN STRATUM
- V2933 I_UNIV: # OF INMATES IN UNIVERSE WITHIN STRATUM
- V2958 SAMPLE: SAMPLE COUNT - ACTUAL NUMBER OF SAMPLE PRISONERS BASED ON FINALCNT (STATE ONLY)
- V2968 SR: SELF-REPRESENTING STATUS (SR OR NSR)
- V2969 P_INT: NUMBER OF PRISONS SAMPLED (INTERVIEW ONLY) BY STRATUM
- V2970 TOTIN_UNIV: NUMBER OF INMATES IN UNIVERSE
- V2971 I_PRIS: NUMBER OF INMATES INTERVIEWED WITHIN PRISON
- V2972 DRUGPOP: DRUG OFFENDER POPULATION
- V2973 NDRPOP: NON-DRUG OFFENDER POPULATION
- V2974 PSITE: PROBABILITY OF SITE SELECTION FOR FEDERAL PRISONS
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This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention .
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Study Description
Citation
United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Survey of Inmates in State and Federal Correctional Facilities, 2004. ICPSR04572-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-02-28. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04572.v1
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04572.v1
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Scope of Study
Summary: This survey provides nationally representative data on inmates held in state prisons and federally-owned and operated prisons. Through personal interviews conducted from October 2003 through May 2004, inmates in both state and federal prisons provided information about their current offense and sentence, criminal history, family background and personal characteristics, prior drug and alcohol use and treatment programs, gun possession and use, and prison activities, programs, and services. Prior surveys of State prison inmates were conducted in 1974, 1979, 1986, 1991, and 1997. Sentenced federal prison inmates were interviewed in the 1991 and 1997 surveys.
Subject Terms: correctional facilities, correctional facilities (adults), corrections, criminal histories, drug abuse, HIV, inmate classification, inmate deaths, inmate populations, inmate programs, inmates, offenses, prison conditions, substance abuse, treatment programs
Smallest Geographic Unit: United States
Geographic Coverage: United States
Time Period:
- 2004
Date of Collection:
- 2003-10--2004-05
Unit of Observation: individual
Universe: Inmates in state and federal prisons in the United States.
Data Types: survey data
Methodology
Sample: A two-stage sampling procedure was used. Prisons were selected in the first stage. Inmates within sampled prisons were selected in the second stage.
Weight: Weights for estimating populations are included with the data.
Mode of Data Collection: personal interview, computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI)
Response Rates: The overall response rates for state and federal inmates were 89.1 percent and 84.6 percent, respectively.
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.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
Version(s)
Original ICPSR Release: 2007-02-28
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Variables
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DS1: Federal Numeric Data
S5Q12LF: Computer Crime Item Flag
S5Q11A: Other than the victim(s), was there anyone else with you when the crime occurred?
S5Q11C: Were any of them also charged with the crime?
S5Q17I: Did you fire [TYPE OF GUN] during the crime?
S5Q18A: Have you EVER been armed with a gun while committing a crime?
S5Q18I: Did you EVER fire a [TYPE OF GUN(S)] while committing a crime?
S6Q1B_AGE: How old were you the first time you were arrested for a crime?
S5Q3C_1: What was the person's relationship to you at the time of the crime? For example, a friend, relative, etc. (Single Victim)
S5Q5B: Were these persons victims of a single incident or more than one incident of the crime? (Multiple victims)
S6Q3A_5: Were you ever convicted and sentenced to serve time for: Minor traffic crimes? (Exclude driving while intoxicated and hit and run)
DS2: State Numeric Data
S5Q12LF: Computer Crime Item Flag
S5Q11A: Other than the victim(s), was there anyone else with you when the crime occurred?
S5Q11C: Were any of them also charged with the crime?
S5Q17I: Did you fire [TYPE OF GUN] during the crime?
S5Q18A: Have you EVER been armed with a gun while committing a crime?
S5Q18I: Did you EVER fire a [TYPE OF GUN(S)] while committing a crime?
S6Q1B_AGE: How old were you the first time you were arrested for a crime?
S5Q3C_1: What was the person's relationship to you at the time of the crime? For example, a friend, relative, etc. (Single Victim)
S5Q5B: Were these persons victims of a single incident or more than one incident of the crime? (Multiple victims)
S6Q3A_5: Were you ever convicted and sentenced to serve time for: Minor traffic crimes? (Exclude driving while intoxicated and hit and run)
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