COVID Behind Bars: Grassroots and Other COVID-19 Organizing Efforts, United States, 2020-2021 (ICPSR 38747)
Version Date: Apr 27, 2023 View help for published
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Josephine Wang;
Cecilia Bobbitt, Covington & Burling LLP;
Jordan Palmer
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR38747.v1
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The Grassroots and Other COVID-19 Organizing Efforts Dataset was developed to uniformly collect data regarding grassroots efforts that occurred inside and outside of carceral facilities from March 2020 to December 2021 throughout the United States. The efforts that were documented specifically pertain to improving sanitary conditions in carceral facilities and the release of people due to COVID-19.
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County
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Data Collection Notes View help for Data Collection Notes
- For more information on this study, please visit the COVID Behind Bars website.
Study Purpose View help for Study Purpose
The purpose of this study is to serve as a source of compiled information regarding grassroots efforts that occurred inside and outside of carceral facilities from March 2020 to December 2021 throughout the United States.
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Organizations protesting at carceral facilities in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Data Source View help for Data Source
Various news outlets and press releases.
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Description of Variables View help for Description of Variables
The variables in the data include names of organizations, their efforts, and the jurisdictions that they are active in.
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2023-04-27
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2023-04-27 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:
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
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These data are freely available to data users at ICPSR member institutions. The curation and dissemination of this study are provided by the institutional members of ICPSR. How do I access ICPSR data if I am not at a member institution?