Inventory of Data Elements in State and Federal Corrections Information Systems, 1998 (ICPSR 2575)

Version Date: Nov 4, 2005

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Principal Investigator(s):
William J. Sabol

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02575.v1

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Summary

This survey summarizes the data elements maintained by state and federal corrections information systems that track adult, sentenced offenders, and assesses the severity of obstacles in reporting statistical information. Two instruments, an Inventory Questionnaire and an Obstacles Survey, were mailed to Departments of Correction in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. The Inventory Questionnaire asked 207 questions about data elements describing offenders, 15 questions about elements describing facility management, and 20 questions about the capabilities of the information system to process data electronically. For some elements, questions were asked to determine if more detailed information (subvalues) about the element existed. The Obstacles Survey asked departments to rate the severity of problems they may encounter when processing requests for statistical information. The items were grouped into five categories: legislative and institutional factors, hardware factors, software factors, staffing factors, and data factors.

Citation

Sabol, William J. Inventory of Data Elements in State and Federal Corrections Information Systems, 1998. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-04. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02575.v1

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Funding

Association of State Correctional Administrators, United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics, United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Corrections Program Office, United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1998-01

Date of Collection

1998-01
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Universe

State and federal Departments of Corrections in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

Data Source

self-enumerated questionnaires

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1999-03-25

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:
  • Sabol, William J. Inventory of Data Elements in State and Federal Corrections Information Systems, 1998. ICPSR02575-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1999. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02575.v1

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.

1999-03-25 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:

  • 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.