Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS), 1979: Hawaii (ICPSR 8042)
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United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. Bureau of Justice Statistics
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08042.v2
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The purpose of the Offender Based Transaction Statistics (OBTS), 1979: Hawaii was to compile, collate, analyze, publish, and disseminate statistical information concerning the operation of the criminal justice system at the federal, state, and local levels. This collection includes facts on an arrested offender showing actions by the police, prosecutor, and court. The individual offender is the unit of analysis, and felony arrests and other related dispositions are included.
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For reasons of confidentiality, the actual days in the date variables have been masked in the public release version of the data.
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Population of adults charged with felonies.
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computerized court records
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1986-04-28
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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:
- U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. OFFENDER BASED TRANSACTION STATISTICS (OBTS), 1979: HAWAII. ICPSR08042-v2. Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census [producer], 1980. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-08-08. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08042.v2
2005-08-08 The data were reprocessed with minor changes to formatting, such as making two digit years into four digits. A new restricted data file has been created as well as the public data file. SAS, SPSS, and Stata collection files have been added and the text codebook has been converted to PDF format.
1986-04-28 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 recodes and/or calculated derived variables.
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