Details

Subject(s)

• Arson investigation—Massachusetts [Browse]
• Arson—Massachusetts—Statistics [Browse]
• Arson—Massachusetts—Prevention [Browse]

Related name

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

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Statistics [Browse]

Series

• ICPSR (Series) ; 9972. [More in this series]
• ICPSR 9972

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

These data were gathered to test a model of the socioeconomic and demographic determinants of the crime of arson. Datasets for this analysis were developed by the principal investigator from records of the Massachusetts Fire Incident Reporting System and from population and housing data from the 1980 Census of Massachusetts. The three identically-structured data files include variables such as population size, fire incident reports, employment, income, family structure, housing type, housing quality, housing occupancy, housing availability, race, and age.

Notes

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

Type of data

3 data files + machine-readable documentation (PDF) + SAS setup file(s) + SPSS setup file(s) + Stata setup file(s) + SAS transport + SPSS portable + Stata system

Time and place of event

Start: 1983; and end: 1985.

Geographic coverage

Massachusetts, United States

Funding information

United States Department of Justice. NationalInstitute of Justice. 86-IJ-CX-0071

System details

Mode of access: Internet.

Methodology note

Universe: Arson incidents in metropolitan areas in the United States.

Contents

Part 1: Massachusetts ZIP Code Data; Part 2: Massachusetts Urban Census Tract Data; Part 3: Boston Census Tract Data; Part 4: Codebook for All Parts

Other format(s)

Also available as downloadable files.

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