Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 2007 (ICPSR 23082)
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Federal Judicial Center
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23082.v2
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The purpose of this data collection is to provide an official public record of the business of the federal bankruptcy courts. The data include all petitions filed under the Bankruptcy Code in the United States Bankruptcy Courts on or after October 1, 2006, and any petitions filed before October 1, 2006, that were still pending on that date. The records are organized according to the fiscal year of termination with cases still pending at the end included in a separate pending dataset. The records in Part 1, Terminations Data, 2007, include cases that terminated in the year 2007. The records in Part 2, Pending Data, 2007, include cases that were still pending as of October 1, 2007. For the bankruptcy data, the unit of analysis is a single case.
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Access to these BJS-sponsored data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete an application through the Standard Application Process (SAP) Portal. The application requires users to provide information about their research team and project, explain why the requested data are essential to the research, and describe how the data will be used. Applicants are also required to complete and submit a NACJD Restricted Data Use Agreement and a BJS Privacy Certificate, and provide IRB review documentation.
Restricted Data Use Agreements available on the NACJD website are provided for reference only. Apply for access to BJS restricted-use data through the SAP Portal, where you will complete the application and submit all required documentation. If the application is approved, these data may be accessed from a requester secure site via ICPSR's secure download procedures.
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All federal Bankruptcy Court cases in the United States in 2007.
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computerized court records, and administrative records
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2008-12-17
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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:
- Federal Judicial Center. Federal Court Cases: Integrated Data Base Bankruptcy Petitions, 2007. ICPSR23082-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2011-03-08. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23082.v2
2011-03-08 All parts are being moved to restricted access and will be available only using the restricted access procedures.
2008-12-17 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:
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- Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
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