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UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS: COUNTY LEVEL ARREST AND OF FENS:: DATA. 1986 (ICPSR 9119)

Pr inc i pa 1 Invest igator Federal Bureau of Investigation

U.S, Department of Justice

First ICPSR Edition Winter 1989

Inter-university Consortium for Pol itical and Social Research

P.O. Box 1248 Ann Arbor, Michigan 48106

U.S. Department of Justice National Institute of Justice

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The data (and tabulations) uti I ized in this (publ ication) were made available (in part) by the Inter-university Consortium for Pol itical and Social Research. The data for UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS: COUNTY LEVEL ARREST AND OFFENSE DATA, 1986 were originally collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the collector of the original data nor the Consortium bear any responsibil ity for the analyses or i nterpretat iO,1S presented here.

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United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Investigation UNIFORM CRIME REPORTS: COUNTY LEVEL ARREST AND OFFENSE DATA, 1986 (ICPSR

9119)

SUMMARY: The files in this collection contain tabulations of arrests and offenses for Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) index crimes: murder, rape, robbery, assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft, arson. County populations are also reported. CLASS III

UNIVERSE: Law enforcement agencies ~n the United States. NOTE: Data have been aggregated to the county level. Within each county, data for agencies reporting s~x to eleven months of information were weighted to produce twelve month equivalents. Agencies reporting less than six months of data were excluded from the aggregation. Data from agencies reporting only statewide figures were allocated to counties proportionate to their share of the state population.

EXTENT OF COLLECTION: 2 data files DATA FORMAT: Logical Record Length

Part 1: Arrests, 1986 File Structure: rectangular Cases: 3 1 133 Variables: 19 Record Length: 82 Records Per Case: 1

Part 2: Offenses, 1986 File Structure: rectangular Cases: 3,129 Variables: 17 Record Length: 79 Records Per Case: 1

RELATED PUBLICATION: Federal Bureau of Investigation. UNIFORM CRIME REPORTING

Washington, DC: United States Government Printing Office, 1980.

HANDBOOK.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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ICPSR DATA COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Part 1: UCR County Arrest File

Variable Description List

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Part 2: UCR County Offense Fi le

Variable Description List

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APPENDIX State and County Codes

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