National Incident-Based Reporting System, 2005 : Extract Files / United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureauof Investigation.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 20303.

ICPSR ; 20303

National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Series ; 20303

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2007.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

The National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) is a part of the Uniform Crime Reporting Program (UCR), administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). The extract files version of NIBRS is an attempt to simplify working with NIBRS data. Data management issues with NIBRS are significant, especially when two or more segment levels are being merged. These issues require skills separate from data analysis. NIBRS data as formatted by the FBI are stored in a single file. These data are organized by various segment levels (record types). There are six main segment levels: administrative, offense, property, victim, offender, and arrestee. Each segment level has a different length and layout. There are other segment levels that occur with less frequency than the six main levels. Significant computing resources are necessary to work with the data in its single-file format. In addition, the user must be sophisticated in working with data in complex file types. For these reasons and the desire to facilitate the use of NIBRS data, ICPSR created the extract files. The data are not a representative sample of crime in the United States.... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR20303

Contents:

Part 1: Incident-Level File; Part 2: Victim-Level File; Part 3: Offender-Level File; Part 4: Arrestee-Level File

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2008-01-04.

OCLC:

190872051

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.