Details

Subject(s)

• Prisoners—United States—Statistics [Browse]

Related name

• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Statistics [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 8912. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 8912

Restrictions note

Use of these data are restricted to Princeton University students, faculty, and staff for non-commercial statistical analysis and research purposes only.

Summary note

This data collection supplies annual data on the size of the prison population and the size of the general population in the United States for the period 1925 to 1986. These yearend counts include tabulations for prisons in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia, as well as the federal prisons, and are intended to provide a measure of the overall size of the prison population. The figures were provided from a voluntary reporting program in which each state, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons reported summary statistics as part of the statistical information on prison populations in the United States.

Notes

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2006-09-15.

Type of data

1 data file + machine-readable documentation (text) + SAS setup file(s) + SPSS setup file(s) + Stata setup file(s) + SAS transport + SPSS portable + Stata system + OSIRIS dictionary

Time and place of event

Start: 1925; and end: 1986.

Funding information

United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics.

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Methodology note

Universe: All prisoners in the United States from 1925-1986.

Contents

Part 1: Data File

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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