Version Date: Dec 19, 1996 View help for published
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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/ICPSR09446.v1
Version V1
This survey provides criminal justice expenditure and employment (CJEE) data for all states, counties, and certain municipal governments. Specific variables include full- and part-time employees and payroll, expenditures for current operations, capital outlay and contributions to employee benefits, and intergovernmental expenditures paid to state and local governments. Sectors represented in this survey include police protection, judicial services, legal services and prosecution, public defense, and corrections, as well as other criminal justice services.
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This collection was originally titled EXPENDITURE AND EMPLOYMENT DATA FOR THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM: INDIVIDUAL UNITS FILE AND ESTIMATES FILE, 1988.
Probability sampling in which the relative size of a government's criminal justice expenditure as reported in the 1982 Census of Governments determines its probability of selection. Each sample case was assigned a weight based on its probability of selection. Included were 173 state, county, municipality, and township governments serving populations of 10,000 or more, and 8,100 general purpose state and local governments with populations under 10,000.
All state, county, municipality, and township governments in the United States.
self-enumerated forms, and official state and local records
1991-03-05
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:
1996-12-19 SAS and SPSS data definition statements have been generated for this collection.
1991-03-05 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:
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.
ICPSR usually offers files in multiple formats for researchers to be able to access data and documentation in formats that work well within their needs. If you have questions about the accessibility of materials distributed by ICPSR or require further assistance, please visit ICPSR’s Accessibility Center.

This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.