National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA): Crimes by County, United States, 2002-2014 (ICPSR 38649)
Version Date: Jan 30, 2023 View help for published
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Philippa Clarke, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research;
Robert Melendez, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research;
Megan Chenoweth, University of Michigan. Institute for Social Research
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38649.v1
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This dataset contains county-level totals for the years 2002-2014 for eight types of crime: murder, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, motor vehicle theft, and arson. These crimes are classed as Part I criminal offenses by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) in their Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program. Each record in the dataset represents the total of each type of criminal offense reported in (or, in the case of missing data, attributed to) the county in a given year.
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county
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Data Collection Notes View help for Data Collection Notes
- Data and documentation for this study were originally deposited in openICPSR 115006.
- For additional information, see the National Neighborhood Data Archive (NaNDA).
Study Purpose View help for Study Purpose
The purpose of this study was to aggregate county-level Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) data for the years 2002-2014.
Study Design View help for Study Design
Data were compiled from the Universal Crime Reporting (UCR) Program Data Series at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Specifically, the data come from dataset 4, "Crimes Reported," in NACJD's County-level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data studies for the years 2002-2014.
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) collects crime statistics from participating United States law enforcement agencies and provides it to ICPSR, which aggregates data and imputes or calculates missing data for use by researchers. Additional information on the FBI source data, along with methods used by NACJD to impute missing observations and allocate crimes reported by multi-jurisdiction reporting agencies, can be found in the codebooks that accompany the original NACJD studies.
In NACJD, UCR county-level crime data are split up by year and archived alongside agency-level arrest data, data on Phase II offenses, and more detailed data on certain criminal offenses (such as homicide and hate crimes). In this dataset, researchers have aggregated county-level Phase I crime data for multiple years, for the convenience of researchers investigating crime longitudinally or for use with multi-year datasets.
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All counties in the United States, excluding US island territories.
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United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, 2002. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-03-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04009.v2
United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, 2005. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007-07-24. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04717.v1
United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, 2007. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-08-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR25114.v1
United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, 2006. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2008-12-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23780.v1
United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, United States, 2012. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-06-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR35019.v1
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, United States, 2009. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-06-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR30763.v2
United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, 2004. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-07-26. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04466.v1
United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, 2008. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-04-21. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR27644.v1
United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, 2003. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-31. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04360.v2
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, United States, 2010. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-06-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR33523.v2
United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, United States, 2011. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2014-06-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34582.v2
Data and documentation for this study were originally deposited in openICPSR 115006.
United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, United States, 2013. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-09-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36117.v2
United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation. Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, United States, 2014. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2017-09-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR36399.v2
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HideOriginal Release Date View help for Original Release Date
2023-01-30
Version History View help for Version History
2023-01-30 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.
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.