Uniform Crime Reports: National Time-Series Community-Level Database, 1967-1980 (ICPSR 8214)

Version Date: Jan 12, 2006

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Principal Investigator(s):
Glenn L. Pierce; William J. Bowers; James Baird; Joseph Heck

Series:

https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08214.v1

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Summary

The Uniform Crime Reports National Time-Series Data, 1967-1980, include detailed criminal offense and clearance information submitted monthly by over 3,000 consistently reporting law enforcement agencies in the United States. These data, provided in annually pooled cross-sections, were processed at the Center for Applied Social Research, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts to produce easily accessible and highly reliable time-series data on officially reported crime. Originally provided by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), these data exclude Uniform Crime Report (UCR) data from infrequently reporting law enforcement agencies. In general, only those agencies that submitted ten or more monthly reports in every year during 1967 through 1980 are included in this collection. The data include detailed breakdowns of offenses and clearances taken from disaggregated UCR Return A tapes. Of particular interest are weapon-specific robbery and assault variables, types of rape, burglary, larceny, and motor vehicle theft, and clearances by arrest (or other exceptional means) of adults and juveniles for each offense sub-type. Both monthly and annual counts of these are available. Finally, as an aid to the user, each agency is identified by its FBI "ORI Code" as well as a sequential case number produced and documented by ICPSR in the codebook's appendix. Cases also may be identified by geographic region, state, SMSA, county, population size and group, and frequency of reporting.

Citation

Pierce, Glenn L., Bowers, William J., Baird, James, and Heck, Joseph. Uniform Crime Reports: National Time-Series Community-Level Database, 1967-1980. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-01-12. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08214.v1

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Funding

United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice

Subject Terms

Geographic Coverage

Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Time Period(s)

1967 -- 1980

Date of Collection

1967 -- 1980
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Sample

Law enforcement agencies that submitted ten or more monthly reports in every year from 1967 through 1980 are included in this dataset.

Universe

These data are taken from the universe of the Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports, which include detailed criminal offense and clearance information submitted monthly by over 3,000 consistently reporting law enforcement agencies in the United States.

Data Source

United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation Uniform Crime Reports data

Data Type(s)

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Original Release Date

1984-07-13

Version History

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:

  • Pierce, Glenn L., William J. Bowers, James Baird, and Joseph Heck. Uniform Crime Reports: National Time-Series Community-Level Database, 1967-1980. ICPSR08214-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1984. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08214.v1

2006-01-12 All files were removed from dataset 15 and flagged as study-level files, so that they will accompany all downloads.

1984-07-13 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.

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DS1 Part 1: 196719 MB
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DS5 Part 5: 197119 MB
DS6 Part 6: 197219 MB
DS7 Part 7: 197319 MB
DS8 Part 8: 197419 MB
DS9 Part 9: 197519 MB
DS10 Part 10: 197619 MB
DS11 Part 11: 197719 MB
DS12 Part 12: 197819 MB
DS13 Part 13: 197919 MB
DS14 Part 14: 198019 MB
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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.