Survey of Inmates of Federal Correctional Facilities, 1991 (ICPSR 6037)
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United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Prisons
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06037.v1
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This survey provides nationally representative data on persons held in federal prisons. The survey was designed to supply information on individual characteristics of prison inmates, such as their current offenses and sentences, criminal histories, prior drug and alcohol use and treatment, gun possession and use, gang membership, and family background. Data on characteristics of victims and on prison activities, programs, and services are provided as well.
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To preserve respondent confidentiality, certain identifying variables are restricted from general dissemination. Aggregations of this information for statistical purposes that preserve the anonymity of individual respondents can be obtained from ICPSR in accordance with existing servicing policies.
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Part 1, Successful Interview Data, contains two variables, SC3870 and SC3885, that were improperly formatted. These variables are repeated at the end of the dataset with proper formats as variables SC3870R and SC3885R.
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The sample was selected from a universe of 81 facilities for males with a total of 48,166 male inmates and 14 facilities for females with a total of 4,015 female inmates. The design consisted of two stages of sampling: (1) stratifying facilities and selecting one facility per stratum with probability proportional to size, and (2) systematically selecting the inmates within a chosen facility for inclusion in the sample.
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All adult inmates in the United States housed in correctional facilities segregated by sex and operated by the federal government.
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personal interviews
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1994-03-10
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- United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Prisons. Survey of Inmates of Federal Correctional Facilities, 1991. ICPSR06037-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2004. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06037.v1
2006-01-18 File CB6037.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
2004-10-01 The SAS data definition statements, formerly released as Parts 2 and 4, have been updated and incorporated with their respective datasets, now Parts 1 and 2. The SPSS data definition statements have been updated as well.
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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.
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.