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Gender and Ethnicity Predictions for California City Council Members and School Board Members, 2010-2023 (ICPSR 209861)

Released/updated on: 2024-10-25

Geographic coverage: California, United States

Time period: 2010-01-01--2023-12-31

To conduct this study, I sourced demographic data from 2010 to 2023 from the California Elections Data Archive (CEDA) for city council members and school board members. The CEDA data provide a full list of candidate names and the number of votes a given candidate received for every city council and school board election. I assigned the gender to each candidate based on the lists of popular male and female names provided by the Social Security Administration. Since the average age of city council members is 46 years old according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, I compiled a list of popular male and female given names for babies born in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s. Then, I automated the gender classification as follows: for example, as “Lisa” is identified as a popular female given name by the Social Security Administration, every candidate whose first name is “Lisa” was assigned “female” in our dataset. For a gender-neutral name that appeared on the lists for both male and female given names, which included “Alex” and “Casey,” I used the following keywords “[first name] [last name] [office type (either “city council” or “school board”)] [name of the city or the school district]” to search for more information about the official’s gender online. My search returned either a picture to help clearly identify the official’s gender and/or an article that refers to the official with gendered pronouns. To identify the ethnicity of each elected official, I used the 2010 Census data and the 23AndMe Surname Discovery Tool. The 2010 Census lists surnames occurring at least 100 times, and it includes self-reported ethnicity data for individuals with a given surname. Similarly, the 23AndMe Surname Discovery Tool gives the percentage of individuals with the given surname who identify as each of four different ethnicity groups: Hispanic, White, Asian/Pacific Islander, and Black based on the 2010 US Census data. For surnames that did not appear on either the 2010 Census data or the 23AndMe Surname Discovery Tool, I used Python’s Ethnicolr library, which bases its prediction of ethnicity using either both first and last name or just the last name on the US census data (2000 and 2010), the Florida voting registration data, and the Wikipedia data.

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), 2020 (ICPSR 38651)

Released/updated on: 2023-03-07

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2020-01-01--2020-12-31

The Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey collects data from a nationally representative sample of general-purpose agencies (i.e., local and county police departments, sheriffs' offices, and primary state police agencies). The 2020 LEMAS sample design called for the survey questionnaire to be sent to 3,499 general purpose law enforcement agencies, including 2,631 local and county police departments, 819 sheriffs' offices, and the 49 primary state police departments (Hawaii does not have a primary state police agency). The design called for all agencies employing 100 or more full-time equivalent sworn personnel to be included with certainty (self-representing), and for smaller agencies to be sampled from strata based on number of full-time equivalent sworn officers and type of agency. A total of 37 local police departments were determined to be out-of-scope for the survey because they had closed, had less than one full-time equivalent sworn officer, had contracted out their services with another law enforcement agency, or only had special enforcement responsibilities. The final mail out total of 3,462 agencies included 2,611 local police departments, 802 sheriffs' offices, and the 49 state agencies.

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Federal Justice Statistics Program Data, 1978-1994: [United States] (ICPSR 9296)

Released/updated on: 2023-01-16

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1978-01-01--1994-12-31

Data in this collection examine the processing of federal offenders. The Cases Terminated files (Parts 1-3 and 25-28) contain information about defendants in criminal cases filed in the United States Federal District Court and terminated in the calendar years indicated. Defendants in criminal cases may either be individuals or corporations, and there is one record for each defendant in each case terminated. Information on court proceedings, date the case was filed, date the case was terminated, most serious charge, and reason for termination is included. The Docket and Reporting System files (Parts 4-7, 31-34, and 42) include information on suspects in investigative matters that took an hour or more of a United States Attorney's time with one of the following outcomes: (1) the United States Attorney declined to prosecute, (2) the case was filed in Federal District Court, or (3) the matter was disposed by a United States magistrate. Codes for each disposition and change of status are also provided. The Pretrial Services data (Parts 8, 22, 43, and 47) present variables on the circuit, district, and office where the defendant was charged, type of action, year of birth and sex of the defendant, major offense charge, and results of initial and detention hearings. The Parole Decisions data (Part 9) contain information from various parole hearings such as court date, appeal action, reopening decision, sentence, severity of sentence, offense, and race and ethnicity of the defendant. The Offenders Under Supervision files (Parts 15-16 and 37-40) focus on convicted offenders sentenced to probation supervision and federal prisoners released to parole supervision. The Federal Prisoner files (Parts 18 and 20) supply data on when an offender entered and was released from confinement, as well as the amount of time served for any given offense. The Administrative Office of the United States Courts data files (Parts 44, 52, and 53) contain records of defendants in criminal cases filed in Federal District Court and terminated in the calendar years indicated. There is one record for each defendant in each case. Variables include the date the case was filed, offense level, AO (Administrative Office) codes, and disposition date. The Bureau of Prisons data (both the Master and Detail files, Parts 45, 46, and 54-57 -- formerly known as the Federal Prisoner files) contain records of sentenced prisoners admitted to or released from federal prison during 1992-1994. These files consist of separate records for each prisoner's commitment to federal prison, and for each sentence imposed on a prisoner for a given commitment to federal prison. The Central System (CS) and Central Charge (CC) files of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA) include information about suspects in criminal matters and defendants in criminal cases in 1993-1994. Each defendant in a criminal matter has a master Central System record (Parts 50 and 51) and may have one or more Central Charge records (Parts 48 and 49). The Federal Probation/Supervision Data files (Parts 58 and 59) provide information on supervision procedures and the sequence of events and proceedings in 1992-1994 from the time a case was opened for supervision until the case was terminated. These include reports of parole violations, transfers of supervision to other districts, and case removals due to, for example, rearrest or hospitalization. The Sentencing Commission data (Parts 60 and 61) contain information on federal criminal cases sentenced in 1992-1994 under the Sentencing Guidelines and Policy Statements of the Sentencing Reform Act of 1984.

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National Juvenile Court Data Archive, United States, 1985-2019 (ICPSR 38418)

Released/updated on: 2022-07-28

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1985-01-01--2019-12-31

The National Juvenile Court Data Archive houses over 15 million automated records of cases handled by courts with juvenile jurisdiction. Although some states' data contain traffic and dependency cases, the majority are delinquency and status offense records. The collection itself dates back to the 1920s when it was under the Children's Bureau, however in 1974 the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), within the U.S. Department of Justice assumed responsibility for the work of promoting access to automated juvenile court data sets for juvenile justice research and policymaking efforts.

The Archive contains the most detailed information available on juveniles involved in the juvenile justice system and on the activities of U.S. juvenile courts. The Archive houses a sizable collection of automated juvenile court data files that not only support the national estimates but also support the study of a wide range of national and subnational juvenile justice issues. Designed to facilitate research on the juvenile justice system, the Archive's data files are available to policy-makers, researchers, students, and the public. The data have been used to explore a broad range of topics, from investigating the effectiveness of juvenile court programs and examining policy developments in individual jurisdictions, to monitoring the impact of legislative changes, and guiding juvenile justice system reform.

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), 2016 (ICPSR 37323)

Released/updated on: 2020-08-20

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2016-01-01--2016-12-31

The Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey collects data from a nationally representative sample of general-purpose agencies (i.e., local and county police departments, sheriffs' offices, and primary state police agencies). The 2016 LEMAS sample design called for the survey questionnaire to be sent to 3,499 general purpose law enforcement agencies, including 2,640 local and county police departments, 810 sheriffs' offices, and the 49 primary state police departments (Hawaii does not have a primary state police agency). The design called for all agencies employing 100 or more full-time equivalent sworn personnel to be included with certainty (self-representing), and for smaller agencies to be sampled from strata based on number of full-time equivalent sworn officers and type of agency. A total of 28 local police departments were determined to be out-of-scope for the survey because they had closed, had less than one full-time equivalent sworn officer, had contracted out their services with another law enforcement agency, or only had special enforcement responsibilities. The final mail out total of 3,471 agencies included 2,612 local police departments, 810 sheriffs' offices, and the 49 state agencies.

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics Body-Worn Camera Supplement (LEMAS-BWCS), 2016 (ICPSR 37302)

Released/updated on: 2019-06-20

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2015-01-01--2016-12-31

Beginning in 2016, the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey adopted a core and supplement structure. The LEMAS core has been conducted every 3 to 4 years since 1987 with approximately 3,200 local, county and state law enforcement agencies across the United States. Due to the breadth of the survey, detailed analysis of any specific law enforcement topic cannot be done with the LEMAS core. The LEMAS supplements are designed to fill this void by allowing for a more comprehensive examination on a key topic in law enforcement and are administered in between core years. The 2016 LEMAS Body-Worn Camera Supplement (LEMAS-BWCS) is the first supplement administered under the new structure.

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State Court Processing Statistics, 2002: Felony and Domestic Violence Defendants in Large Urban Counties (ICPSR 34892)

Released/updated on: 2019-03-28

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2002-05-01--2002-05-31

This study provides incident-based, case processing, and criminal history data on defendants charged in state courts during May 2002. The State Court Processing Statistics Program tracked the processing of about 15,000 felony defendants charged in 40 of the 75 largest counties during May 2002. The BJS study entitled Processing of Domestic Violence Cases in State Courts collected additional incident-based and case processing data on more than 5,000 felony and misdemeanor domestic violence defendants in 16 of the 40 counties.

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Law Enforcement Agency Roster (LEAR), 2016 (ICPSR 36697)

Released/updated on: 2017-04-05

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2015-01-01--2016-12-31

In the past several years, BJS has made efforts to develop a national roster of publicly funded law enforcement agencies. The Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies (CSLLEA) represents the core of the BJS's law enforcement statistics program, and is currently used as the primary universe for all BJS law enforcement collections. The CSLLEA was last conducted in 2014 but encountered data collection issues. Since the last law enforcement universe list was the 2008 CSLLEA, BJS decided further work was needed to have a reliable and complete roster of law enforcement agencies. Using the 2008 and 2014 CSLLEA universe as the base, the LEAR integrated multiple datasets in an effort to compile a complete list of active general purpose law enforcement agencies. The goal of the LEAR was to serve as the universe list for which the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) core and supplement samples could be pulled. The 2016 LEAR contains a census of 15,810 general purpose law enforcement agencies, including 12,695 local and county police departments, 3,066 sheriffs' offices and 49 primary state police departments. Staffing size from multiple datasets has also been merged into the LEAR file.

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National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (ICPSR 36567)

Released/updated on: 2016-09-15

Geographic coverage: United States

The National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center (NSCISC) is operated by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation through funding from the National Institute on Disability, Independent Living, and Rehabilitation Research (NIDILRR). NSCISC supports and directs the collection, management, and analysis of the world's largest and longest spinal cord injury (SCI) research database. Organizationally, NSCISC is currently at the hub of a network of 14 NIDILRR-sponsored and 5 subcontract-funded Spinal Cord Injury Model Systems located at major medical centers throughout the United States. In addition to maintaining the national SCI database, NSCISC personnel conduct ongoing, database-oriented research. NSCISC produces annuals reports and "Facts and Figures at a Glance" which can be accessed here.

The National Spinal Cord Injury Database has been in existence since 1973 and captures data from an estimated 6% of new SCI cases in the U.S. Since its inception, 28 federally funded SCI Model Systems have contributed data to the National SCI Database. As of March 2016, the database contained information on 31,645 persons who sustained traumatic spinal cord injuries. To assure comparability of data acquired by personnel in various centers, rigid scientific criteria have been established for the collection, management, and analysis of information entered into the database. National Spinal Cord Injury Statistical Center staff has also developed quality control procedures that further enhance the reliability and validity of the database.

Within the scope of the Spinal Cord Injury Model System program, the purposes of the National SCI Database are as follows:

to study the longitudinal course of traumatic SCI and factors that affect that course;
to identify and evaluate trends over time in etiology, demographic, and injury severity characteristics of persons who incur a SCI;
to identify and evaluate trends over time in health services delivery and treatment outcomes for persons with SCI;
to establish expected rehabilitation treatment outcomes for persons with SCI; and
to facilitate other research such as the identification of potential persons for enrollment in appropriate SCI clinical trials and research projects or as a springboard to population-based studies.

The Database, however, is not intended to study the effectiveness of model systems care as compared to other systems of health care delivery. It is also not by itself intended to gather and maintain population-based data on spinal cord injuries.

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), 2013 (ICPSR 36164)

Released/updated on: 2015-09-22

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2013-01-01--2013-12-31

The Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey collects data from a nationally representative sample of state and local law enforcement agencies in the United States. Although the data collection instrument (see page 150 of the codebook) uses the year 2012 for the title, most questions have a reference date of January 1, 2013. For this reason, the study title uses the year 2013. The 2013 LEMAS sample design called for the survey questionnaire to be sent to 3,336 general purpose state and local law enforcement agencies including 2,353 local police departments, 933 sheriffs' offices, and the 50 primary state law enforcement agencies. The design called for all agencies employing 100 or sworn personnel to be included with certainty (self-representing) and for smaller agencies to be sampled from strata base on number of officers employed. A total of 26 local police departments were determined to be out-of-scope for the survey because they were closed, outsourced, or operating on a part-time basis. A total of 38 sheriffs' offices were excluded from the survey because they had no primary law enforcement jurisdiction. The final mailout total of 3,272 agencies included 2,327 local police departments, 895 sheriffs' offices, and the 50 state agencies.

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State Court Statistics, 2010 (ICPSR 34943)

Released/updated on: 2014-10-21

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2010-01-01--2010-12-31

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads are tabulated according to generic reporting categories developed by the Court Statistics Project (CSP) Committee of the Conference of State Court Administrators. These categories describe differences in the unit of count and the point of count when compiling each court's caseload. Major areas of investigation include (1) case filings in state appellate and trial courts, (2) case processing and dispositions in state appellate and trial courts, and (3) appellate opinions. The trial caseload consists of civil, domestic relations, criminal, juvenile, and traffic violation cases. The appellate caseload consists of appeal by right, appeal by permission, death penalty, and original proceeding/other appellate matter cases.

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Dominican Republic Labor Market Survey: 1980 National and 1983 Urban Sample (ICPSR 35351)

Released/updated on: 2014-10-10

Geographic coverage: Dominican Republic

Time period: 1980-01-01--1980-12-31, 1983-01-01--1983-12-31

The Dominican Republic Labor Market Survey includes information on housing characteristics and person-records for a 1980 national and 1983 urban sample. The original in-person survey was taken on household enumeration forms, with a sample included in the documentation. Data files contain 13,283 person-records in the order of the original questionnaire (provided in documentation). A household unique number can be matched to the person-records, allowing a variety of analyses. For more information on the data or for any questions about the data, please contact Pamela Paxton at ppaxton@prc.utexas.edu.

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State Court Processing Statistics, 1990-2009: Felony Defendants in Large Urban Counties (ICPSR 2038)

Released/updated on: 2014-06-24

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1990-01-01--1990-12-31, 1992-01-01--1992-12-31, 1994-01-01--1994-12-31, 1996-01-01--1996-12-31, 1998-01-01--1998-12-31, 2000-01-01--2000-12-31, 2002-01-01--2002-12-31, 2004-01-01--2004-12-31, 2006-01-01--2006-12-31, 2009-01-01--2009-12-31

Originally known as the National Pretrial Reporting Program, the State Court Processing Statistics (SCPS) program tracks felony cases filed in May of a given year until final disposition or until one year has elapsed from the date of filing. This collection presents data on felony cases filed in approximately 40 of the nation's 75 most populous counties in even numbered years from 1990-2006 and 2009. These 75 counties account for more than a third of the United States population and approximately half of all reported crimes. The cases from these 40 jurisdictions are weighted to represent all felony filings during the month of May in the 75 most populous counties. Data were collected on arrest charges, demographic characteristics, criminal history, pretrial release and detention, adjudication, and sentencing.

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State Court Statistics, 2009 (ICPSR 34081)

Released/updated on: 2012-11-29

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2009-01-01--2009-12-31

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), 1990 (ICPSR 9749)

Released/updated on: 2012-08-02

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1990-01-01--1990-12-31

This survey, the second in the Bureau of Justice Statistics' program on Law Enforcement and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), presents information on four types of general-purpose law enforcement agencies: state police, local police, special police, and sheriff's departments. Variables include size of the population served by the police or sheriff's department, levels of employment and spending, various functions of the department, average salary levels for uniformed officers, and other matters related to management and personnel.

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), 1993 (ICPSR 6708)

Released/updated on: 2012-08-02

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1993-01-01--1993-12-31

This survey, the third in the Bureau of Justice Statistics' program on Law Enforcement and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), presents information on five types of general-purpose law enforcement agencies: state police, county police, special police (state and local), municipal police, and sheriff's departments. Variables include size of the population served by the police or sheriff's department, levels of employment and spending, various functions of the department, average salary levels for uniformed officers, policies and programs, and other matters related to management and personnel.

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), 1987 (ICPSR 9222)

Released/updated on: 2012-08-01

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1987-06-01--1988-06-30

This survey, the first in the Bureau of Justice Statistics' program on Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), presents information on three types of general purpose law enforcement agencies: state police, local police, and sheriffs' departments. Data from the primary state police agency in each of 49 states (Hawaii does not have a state police agency) are also presented. Variables include size of the populations served by the typical police or sheriffs' department, levels of employment and spending, various functions of the department, average salary levels for uniformed officers, and other matters relating to management and personnel.

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State Court Statistics, 2008 (ICPSR 30481)

Released/updated on: 2012-05-22

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2008-01-01--2008-12-31

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State Court Statistics, 2005 (ICPSR 30522)

Released/updated on: 2012-05-22

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2005-01-01--2005-12-31

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads are tabulated according to generic reporting categories developed by the Court Statistics Project (CSP) Committee of the Conference of State Court Administrators. These categories describe differences in the unit of count and the point of count when compiling each court's caseload. Major areas of investigation include (1) case filings in state appellate and trial courts, (2) case processing and dispositions in state appellate and trial courts, and (3) appellate opinions. Within each of these areas of state government investigation, cases are separated by main case type, including civil cases, capital punishment cases, other criminal cases, domestic relations cases, juvenile cases, traffic violations cases, and administrative agency appeals.

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State Court Statistics, 2006 (ICPSR 30523)

Released/updated on: 2012-05-22

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2006-01-01--2006-12-31

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads are tabulated according to generic reporting categories developed by the Court Statistics Project (CSP) Committee of the Conference of State Court Administrators. These categories describe differences in the unit of count and the point of count when compiling each court's caseload. Major areas of investigation include (1) case filings in state appellate and trial courts, (2) case processing and dispositions in state appellate and trial courts, and (3) appellate opinions. Within each of these areas of state government investigation, cases are separated by main case type, including civil cases, capital punishment cases, other criminal cases, domestic relations cases, juvenile cases, traffic violations cases, and administrative agency appeals.

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State Court Statistics, 2007 (ICPSR 30524)

Released/updated on: 2012-05-22

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2007-01-01--2007-12-31

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), 2007 (ICPSR 31161)

Released/updated on: 2011-07-07

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2007-01-01--2007-12-31

Every three to four years, the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) surveys a nationally representative sample of state and local law enforcement agencies. The surveys are conducted as part of the Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) program. Data include agency personnel, expenditures and pay, operations, community policing initiatives, equipment, computers and information systems, and written policies. The LEMAS survey has been conducted in 1987, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1999 (limited scope), 2000, 2003, and 2007.

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Data.Gov (ICPSR 27821)

Released/updated on: 2010-04-06

Geographic coverage: United States

Data.Gov provides public access to machine-readable datasets generated by United States federal agencies. Searchable data catalogs allow users to access government data in three ways: through the 'raw' data catalog, the tool catalog, and the geodata catalog.

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Compstat and Organizational Change in the United States, 1999-2001 (ICPSR 25481)

Released/updated on: 2009-10-30

Geographic coverage: Minneapolis, United States, Lowell, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Newark, New Jersey

Time period: 1999-01-01--2001-12-31

The purpose of the study was to determine how Compstat programs were being implemented across the United States by examining the diffusion of Compstat and factors associated with its implementation. Another goal of the study was to assess the impact of Compstat on line or patrol officers at the bottom of the police organization. The researchers administered a national survey on Compstat and problem solving in police agencies (Part 1) by mail to all 515 American police agencies with over 100 sworn police officers, and to a random sample of 100 agencies with between 50 and 100 sworn officers. The researchers received a total of 530 completed surveys (Part 1) between June 1999 and April 2000. The researchers distributed an anonymous, voluntary, and self-administered survey (Part 2) between December 2000 and May 2001 to a total of 450 patrol officers at three police departments -- Lowell, Massachusetts (LPD), Minneapolis, Minnesota (MPD), and Newark, New Jersey (NPD). The Compstat Survey (Part 1) contains a total of 321 variables pertaining to executive views and departmental policy, organizational features and technology, and comments about problem solving in police agencies. The Line Officer Survey (Part 2) contains a total of 85 variables pertaining to the patrol officers' involvement in Compstat-generated activities, their motivation to participate in them, and their views on these activities.

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS): 1999 Sample Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies (ICPSR 3079)

Released/updated on: 2008-12-09

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1999-01-01--1999-12-31

This survey, the fourth in the Bureau of Justice Statistics' program on Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), presents information on law enforcement agencies: state police, county police, special police (state and local), municipal police, and sheriff's departments. Variables include size of the population served by the police or sheriff's department, levels of employment and spending, various functions of the department, average salary levels for uniformed officers, policies and programs, and other matters related to management and personnel.

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS): 2000 Sample Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies (ICPSR 3565)

Released/updated on: 2008-12-08

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2000-01-01--2000-12-31

This survey, the sixth in the Bureau of Justice Statistics' program on Law Enforcement and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), presents information on law enforcement agencies in the United States: state police, county police, special police (state and local), municipal police, and sheriff's departments. Variables include size of the population served by the police or sheriff's department, levels of employment and spending, various functions of the department, average salary levels for uniformed officers, policies and programs, and other matters related to management and personnel.This survey, the sixth in the Bureau of Justice Statistics' program on Law Enforcement and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), presents information on law enforcement agencies in the United States: state police, county police, special police (state and local), municipal police, and sheriff's departments. Variables include size of the population served by the police or sheriff's department, levels of employment and spending, various functions of the department, average salary levels for uniformed officers, policies and programs, and other matters related to management and personnel.

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS): 1997 Sample Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies (ICPSR 2700)

Released/updated on: 2008-12-04

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1997-01-01--1997-12-31

This survey, the fourth in the Bureau of Justice Statistics' program on Law Enforcement and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS), presents information on law enforcement agencies: state police, county police, special police (state and local), municipal police, and sheriff's departments. Variables include size of the population served by the police or sheriff's department, levels of employment and spending, various functions of the department, average salary levels for uniformed officers, policies and programs, and other matters related to management and personnel.

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State and Metropolitan Area Data Book [United States]: 1991 (ICPSR 6398)

Released/updated on: 2008-10-09

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1991-01-01--1991-12-31

This data collection provides statistics gathered from a variety of federal agencies and national associations. Demographic, economic, and governmental data from both the federal government and private agencies are presented to enable multiarea comparisons as well as single-area profiles. Current estimates and benchmark census results are included. Data are available for five types of geographic coverage: (1) Metro Areas data cover 249 metropolitan statistical areas (MSAs), 17 consolidated metropolitan statistical areas (CMSAs), 54 primary metropolitan statistical areas (PSMAs), and 16 New England county metropolitan areas (NECMAs). Metro Areas data include the following general subjects: area and population, households, vital statistics, health, education, crime, housing, money income, personal income, civilian labor force, employment, construction, commercial office space, manufacturing, wholesale and retail trade, service industries, banking, federal funds and grants, and government employment. There are 14 parts for Metro Areas. (2) State Metro/Nonmetro data cover the United States, the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the metropolitan and nonmetropolitan portions of these areas. State Metro/Nonmetro data include most of the subjects listed for Metro Areas. There are six parts for State Metro/Nonmetro. (3) Metro Counties data cover 336 metropolitan areas and their component counties and include topics identical to those presented in the State Metro/Nonmetro data. Six parts are supplied for Metro Counties. (4) Metro Central Cities data cover 336 metropolitan areas and their 522 central cities and 336 outside central cities portions. Metro Central Cities variables are limited to 13 items, which include area and population, money income, civilian labor force, and retail trade. There is one part for Metro Central Cities. (5) States data cover the United States, the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and census regions and divisions. States data include the same items as the Metro Areas data, plus information on social welfare programs, geography and environment, domestic travel and parks, gross state product, poverty, wealth holders, business, research and development, agriculture, forestry and fisheries, minerals and mining, transportation, communications, energy, state government, federal government, and elections. There are 101 parts for States.

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Statistics Online Computational Resource (ICPSR 208)

Released/updated on: 2008-05-15

The Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR) Web site provides a number of interactive tools for enhancing instruction in various undergraduate and graduate courses in probability and statistics. These resources include online instructional materials, statistical calculators, interactive graphical user interfaces, computational and simulation applets, tools for data analysis and visualization. The tools provided as part of SOCR include conceptual simulations and statistical computing interfaces, which are designed to bridge between the introductory and the more advanced computational and applied probability and statistics courses.

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Aging Statistics (ICPSR 141)

Released/updated on: 2008-03-26

Geographic coverage: United States

Located on the Administration on Aging Web site, Aging Statistics provides links to a variety of tables, reports, databases, studies, and other statistical tools regarding aging populations in the United States. Links are grouped according to topic area, such as estimates and projections for aging populations, minority aging, and disabilities data.

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State Court Statistics, 2003: [United States] (ICPSR 20280)

Released/updated on: 2007-11-14

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2003-01-01--2003-12-31

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads are tabulated according to generic reporting categories developed by the Court Statistics Project Committee of the Conference of State Court Administrators. These categories describe differences in the unit of count and the point of count when compiling each court's caseload. Major areas of investigation include (1) case filings in state appellate and trial courts, (2) case processing and dispositions in state appellate and trial courts, and (3) appellate opinions. Within each of these areas of state government investigation, cases are separated by main case type, including civil cases, capital punishment cases, other criminal cases, juvenile cases, and administrative agency appeals.

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State Court Statistics, 2004: [United States] (ICPSR 20281)

Released/updated on: 2007-11-14

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2004-01-01--2004-12-31

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads are tabulated according to generic reporting categories developed by the Court Statistics Project Committee of the Conference of State Court Administrators. These categories describe differences in the unit of count and the point of count when compiling each court's caseload. Major areas of investigation include (1) case filings in state appellate and trial courts, (2) case processing and dispositions in state appellate and trial courts, and (3) appellate opinions. Within each of these areas of state government investigation, cases are separated by main case type, including civil cases, capital punishment cases, other criminal cases, juvenile cases, and administrative agency appeals.

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Social Sciences Data and Government Information Feedback Survey, October 2005 [United States] (ICPSR 4375)

Released/updated on: 2007-10-17

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2005-01-01--2005-12-31

The purpose of this data collection is to assess the needs of Brown University students, faculty, and staff regarding researching and analyzing numeric and spatial data, and government information (documents) in the social sciences fields, as well as how the social sciences data resources librarian can improve its services in assisting in studies and research. The data were collected via an online survey posted through a listserver to the entire Brown University community. Respondents were asked to give their opinions about learning different statistical packages such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata, as well as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software. Other questions involved respondents' interest in using different information sources such as government statistics, state information and international information.

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Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS): 2003 Sample Survey of Law Enforcement Agencies (ICPSR 4411)

Released/updated on: 2006-05-10

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2003-01-01--2003-12-31

The Law Enforcement Management and Administrative Statistics (LEMAS) survey collects data from a nationally representative sample of publicly funded State and local law enforcement agencies in the United States. Data include agency personnel, expenditures and pay, operations, community policing initiatives, equipment, computers and information systems, and written policies. The LEMAS survey has been conducted in 1987, 1990, 1993, 1997, 1999 (limited scope), 2000, and 2003.

External data

Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web (ICPSR 125)

Released/updated on: 2006-04-04

Geographic coverage: United States, Asia, Europe, North America, Latin America

Housed at the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics Web site, this Web page provides links to statistics and information from the principal United States federal statistical agencies as well as links to Web sites containing labor market information for each state. In addition, the page contains links to primary statistical Web sites for over 60 nations and international organizations.

External data

Odum Institute for Research in Social Science (IRSS) (ICPSR 126)

Released/updated on: 2006-04-03

Geographic coverage: United States

Housed at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, the Howard W. Odum Institute for Research in Social Science maintains the country's third-largest archive of computer-readable social science data. Its holdings include national and international economic, electoral, demographic, financial, health, and public opinion data. Odum Institute maintains a Web-based, searchable catalog of the studies and series in its data holdings.

External data

Fast Response Survey System (FRSS) (ICPSR 124)

Released/updated on: 2006-03-15

Geographic coverage: United States

Established in 1975, the Fast Response Survey System (FRSS) collects issue-oriented data useful to educational analysts, planners, and decision makers. FRSS data provision is intended to provide educational professionals with information not as quickly available through traditional National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) surveys. FRSS collects data from state education agencies and national samples of other educational organizations and participants, e.g., local education agencies, public and private elementary and secondary schools, elementary and secondary school teachers and principals, and public and school libraries.

External data

FedStats (ICPSR 130)

Released/updated on: 2006-03-15

Geographic coverage: United States

FedStats is an Internet gateway to a full range of official statistical information published by more than 100 Federal agencies. Organized so the user can access by statistical subject or by agency, the gateway alleviates the need for users to know in advance which agency produces information on a given subject. Features include: (1) search capabilities on a list of over 400 topics, each of which links to government agency sites, datasets, and related resources, (2) agencies listed alphabetically with descriptions of the statistics they provide and links to their Web sites, contact information, and to the key statistics they offer about one or more of nine major statistical program areas, i.e., agriculture, education, energy, environment, health, income, labor, national accounts, safety, and transportation, and (4) statistical state map profiles, including counties, congressional districts, and Federal judicial districts.

External data

Data on the Net (ICPSR 147)

Released/updated on: 2006-03-14

Geographic coverage: United States

Maintained by the Social Science and Humanities Library at the University of California, San Diego, Data on the Net is a searchable and browsable list of links to Internet sites containing sources of numeric social science data, including actual data, data archives, data libraries, vendors of data, and social science gateways.

External data

Bureau of Labor Statistics (ICPSR 111)

Released/updated on: 2006-03-08

Geographic coverage: United States

This is the Web site for the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the principal agency for the federal government in the field of labor economics and statistics. It collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates data to the public, the United States Congress, the Department of Labor, other federal agencies, state and local governments, business, and labor. The Web site provides links to various mechanisms for exploring and downloading BLS data that cover such subjects as (1) inflation and consumer spending, (2) wages, earnings, and benefits, (3) productivity, (4) safety and health, (5) international statistics, (6) occupations, (7) demographics, (8) employment and unemployment, (9) industries, and (10) business costs.

External data

CDC WONDER (ICPSR 128)

Released/updated on: 2006-03-08

Geographic coverage: United States

CDC WONDER is the online public information health system created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It provides a single point of access to a wide variety of CDC reports, guidelines, and numeric public health data. With it, one can search for and retrieve MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) articles and Prevention Guidelines published by the CDC, as well as query dozens of numeric datasets on CDC's mainframe and other computers via "fill-in-the blank" request screens. Public-use datasets about mortality, cancer incidence, hospital discharges, AIDS, behavioral risk factors, diabetes, and many other topics are available for query, and the requested data can be readily summarized and analyzed.

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State and Metropolitan Area Data Book [United States]: 1982 (ICPSR 8187)

Released/updated on: 2006-01-18

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1982-01-01--1982-12-31

This collection is composed of two files, a State File (Part 1) and a Metropolitan Area File (Part 2), both of which contain statistics gathered from approximately 70 government and private agencies. The State File contains variables on population, households, vital statistics, health, education, crime, social insurance and welfare, housing, land use, labor force and unions, income, utilities, banking, elections, and veterans. Data are available for all states and the District of Columbia, the United States, and Census regions and divisions. The Metropolitan Area File covers the same general topics as the State File. Data are available for the United States, all Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs), Standard Consolidated Statistical Areas (SCSAs), and metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas.

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State Court Statistics, 2002: [United States] (ICPSR 3990)

Released/updated on: 2006-01-18

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 2002-01-01--2002-12-31

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads are tabulated according to generic reporting categories developed by the Court Statistics Project Committee of the Conference of State Court Administrators. These categories describe differences in the unit of count and the point of count when compiling each court's caseload. Major areas of investigation include (1) case filings in state appellate and trial courts, (2) case processing and dispositions in state appellate and trial courts, and (3) appellate opinions. Within each of these areas of state government investigation, cases are separated by main case type, including civil cases, capital punishment cases, other criminal cases, juvenile cases, and administrative agency appeals.

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American Voting Behavior: Presidential Elections from 1952-1980 (ICPSR 7581)

Released/updated on: 2006-01-12

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1952-01-01--1980-12-31

This instructional package includes a student manual containing six exercises, an instructor's guide, and four subsets of data required for use in conjunction with the manual's exercises. The package's major purpose is to enable students to examine certain substantive questions about electoral behavior through analysis of political survey data. The manual avoids instruction in methodology, per se, hence the student is taken no further than the analysis of straightforward variables in percentagized tables with and without controls, and is introduced to epsilon, the percentage difference measures based on 2 X 2 tables, but offered no elaborate discussion of measures of association. The six structured exercises introduce the basic analytic techniques necessary for coping with survey data in the expectation that the students will then move on to their own topics. The datasets were designed to be both substantively and analytically interesting, as students are forced continually to make choices and judgments about which variables to use and how to combine code categories. Beyond this, the exercises serve a more complex purpose: to help the student gain a better understanding of the existing scholarly literature by going through steps similar to those of the original analysts. In some instances, the students can readily appreciate how close their work is to the analysis in assigned reading. The instructor's guide has two purposes: first, to help instructors use the student manual effectively, and second, to suggest various ways to depart from the six exercises and to develop essentially new manuals. The subsets (Parts 1-4) contain data from every presidential election survey that was conducted by the Survey Research Center (SRC) and Center for Political Studies (CPS) (at the University of Michigan) from 1952 to 1980. Part 4 contains an extensive set of variables drawn exclusively from the CPS's AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1980 (ICPSR 7763). This is the only deck needed to complete the exercises in Exercises l-5. Part 1 includes small sets of comparable variables from each SRC/CPS presidential election study from 1952-1972. The variables in these decks were selected with the intention of providing students with a range of interesting possibilities for original research topics for term papers. Part 2 includes variables and respondents from panel surveys contained in AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION SERIES: 1972, 1974, 1976 (ICPSR 7607). This dataset may be used with Exercise 6. Supplementing the panel file is the data in Part 3, based on the cross-section survey, AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1976 (7381). It repeats the variables from the 1976 component of the panel, with a much larger N. The AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1976 (7381) may be used independently, as with the AMERICAN NATIONAL ELECTION STUDY, 1980 (ICPSR 7763), or it may be used in exercises comparing cross-section with panel data. Data used for the exercises were made available by ICPSR. The major analyses of these data have appeared in two publications: (1) University of Michigan. Survey Research Center. THE AMERICAN VOTER. New York, NY: Wiley, 1960, and (2) Campbell, Angus, Philip Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald Stokes. ELECTIONS AND THE POLITICAL ORDER. New York, NY: Wiley, 1966.

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State Court Statistics, 1985-2001: [United States] (ICPSR 9266)

Released/updated on: 2005-11-04

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1985-01-01--2001-12-31

This data collection provides comparable measures of state appellate and trial court caseloads by type of case for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Court caseloads are tabulated according to generic reporting categories developed by the Court Statistics Project Committee of the Conference of State Court Administrators. These categories describe differences in the unit of count and the point of count when compiling each court's caseload. Major areas of investigation include (1) case filings in state appellate and trial courts, (2) case processing and dispositions in state appellate and trial courts, and (3) appellate opinions. Within each of these areas of state government investigation, cases are separated by main case type, including civil cases, capital punishment cases, other criminal cases, juvenile cases, and administrative agency appeals.

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Juvenile Court Statistics, 1995: [United States] (ICPSR 2805)

Released/updated on: 2005-11-04

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1995-01-01--1995-12-31

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1995 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases). Inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems brought before the juvenile courts, this series is the oldest continuous source of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth by juvenile courts. It is the most detailed information available on youth who come in contact with the juvenile justice system and on the activities of the nation's juvenile courts. Information is provided on state, county, number of delinquency cases, number of status offense cases, number of dependency cases, and total number of cases. The data distinguish cases with and without the filing of a petition.

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Juvenile Court Statistics, 1996: [United States] (ICPSR 2841)

Released/updated on: 2005-11-04

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1996-01-01--1996-12-31

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1996 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases). Inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems brought before the juvenile courts, this series is the oldest continuous source of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth by juvenile courts. It is the most detailed information available on youth who come in contact with the juvenile justice system and on the activities of the nation's juvenile courts. Information is provided on state, county, number of delinquency cases, number of status offense cases, number of dependency cases, and total number of cases. The data distinguish cases with and without the filing of a petition.

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Juvenile Court Statistics, 1997: [United States] (ICPSR 2894)

Released/updated on: 2005-11-04

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1997-01-01--1997-12-31

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1997 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases). Inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems brought before the juvenile courts, this series is the oldest continuous source of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth by juvenile courts. It is the most detailed information available on youth who come in contact with the juvenile justice system and on the activities of the nation's juvenile courts. Information is provided on state, county, number of delinquency cases, number of status offense cases, number of dependency cases, and total number of cases. The data distinguish cases with and without the filing of a petition.

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Juvenile Court Statistics, 1987: [United States] (ICPSR 6119)

Released/updated on: 2005-11-04

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1987-01-01--1987-12-31

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1987 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases). Inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems brought before the juvenile courts, this series is the oldest continuous source of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth by juvenile courts. Information is provided on state, county, number of delinquency cases by sex, number of status offense cases by sex, number of dependency cases by sex, and total number of cases by sex.

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Juvenile Court Statistics, 1988: [United States] (ICPSR 6120)

Released/updated on: 2005-11-04

Geographic coverage: United States

Time period: 1988-01-01--1988-12-31

This data collection describes in quantitative terms the volume of juvenile cases disposed in 1988 by courts having jurisdiction over juvenile matters (delinquency, status offense, and dependency cases). Inaugurated in 1926 to furnish an index of the problems brought before the juvenile courts, this series is the oldest continuous source of information on the processing of delinquent and dependent youth by juvenile courts. Information is provided on state, county, number of delinquency cases by sex, number of status offense cases by sex, number of dependency cases by sex, and total number of cases by sex.