Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 1992 (ICPSR 6587)

This data collection contains replicate weight variables appropriate for calculating sampling errors using the Wesvar PC variance estimation program, plus two variables, VARSTRAT and VARUNIT, that were developed as part of the processing for creating the replicate weights. The replicate weights were created by the jackknife method and the user must specify the JKN variance estimation procedure when using Wesvar PC. The JKN variance estimation procedure will not work correctly unless two files of factors are attached to each Wesvar file. Two sets of factor files are included in the study. To work with the Wesvar data file for Part 1 (Tort, Contract, and Real Property Rights Data), users should download da6587.p3 and da6587.p4, change the file names to fpcp1.txt and jknfp1.txt, and attach both files to the Wesvar data file. Similarly, to work with the Wesvar data file for Part 2 (Civil Jury Cases Data), users should download da6587.p5 and da6587.p6, change the file names to fpcp2.txt and jknfp2.txt, and attach both files to the Wesvar data file. In addition, the degrees of freedom should be set at 77 in Wesvar (119 replicate weights, 42 varstrat units) for Part 1 and at 24 (42 replicate weights, 18 varstrat units) for Part 2 in order to calculate the correct confidence intervals.

standard coding forms completed by court staff

• United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics. Civil Justice Survey of State Courts, 1992. ICPSR06587-v5. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-11-02. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06587.v5

2011-11-02 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.

2006-03-30 File CB6587.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it 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.

2004-06-01 The data have been updated by the principal investigator to include replicate weights and a few other variables. The codebook and SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been revised to reflect these changes.

2001-03-26 The data had been updated by the principal investigator to include replicate weights. The codebook and SAS and SPSS data definition statements had been revised to reflect these changes.

2001-03-26 The data have been updated by the principal investigator to include replicate weights. The codebook and SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been revised to reflect these changes.

1997-07-29 The codebook had been revised to correct errors documenting both data files. Column location (and width) of variable WGHT "TOTAL WEIGHT" was incorrectly shown as 10.4 for Part 1, Tort, Contract, and Real Property Data. It was accurately shown in the data definition statements as 9.4. Variables listed after WGHT were inaccurately reported one column off in the codebook. Similarly, column location (and width) of variable WGHT "TOTAL WEIGHT" was incorrectly shown as 10.2 for Part 2, Civil Jury Data. It was accurately shown in the data definition statements as 9.2. Variables listed after WGHT were inaccurately reported one column off in the codebook.

1996-10-01 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.