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Description & Citation--Study No. 7852

Bibliographic Description

ICPSR Study No.:7852
 
Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07852
 
Title:Census of State Adult Correctional Facilities, 1979
 
Principal Investigator(s):United States Department of Justice. Bureau of Justice Statistics
 
Series:Census of State and Federal Adult Correctional Facilities Series
 
Bibliographic Citation:U.S. Dept. of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics. CENSUS OF STATE ADULT CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES, 1979 [Computer file]. Conducted by U.S. Dept. of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. 2nd ICPSR ed. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [producer and distributor], 1997. doi:10.3886/ICPSR07852
 

Scope of Study

Summary:This census, designed by the Bureau of Justice Statistics and conducted by the United States Census Bureau, includes all state correctional facilities known to the Census Bureau in 1979. Each facility is classified into one of ten categories such as community center, prison farm, road camp, or reception center. Data for 1979 include number of inmates by security classification and by sex, number of full- and part-time staff, number of paid and volunteer staff broken down by position, age, pay, and education, number and age of facilities, type of facilities provided in each cell by size of cell, hospital facilities available, programs provided for the inmates, job training, and inmate IQ scores.
 
Subject Term(s):correctional facilities, correctional facilities (adults), corrections, corrections management, inmate classification, inmate deaths, inmate populations, inmate programs, inmates, jails, personnel, prison administration, prison conditions, prison construction, prison overcrowding, prison violence
 
Geographic Coverage:United States
 
Time Period:1979
 
Date(s) of Collection:1979
 
Universe:State adult correctional facilities in 1979 in the United States.
 
Data Type:census/enumeration data
 

Methodology

Data Source:self-enumerated questionnaires
 

Access and Availability

Note:A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.
 
Original ICPSR Release:1984-03-18
 
Version History:The last update of this study occurred on 2005-11-04.
 
  2005-11-04 - On 2005-03-14 new files were added to one or more datasets. These files included additional setup files as well as one or more of the following: SAS program, SAS transport, SPSS portable, and Stata system files. The metadata record was revised 2005-11-04 to reflect these additions.
 
  1997-02-13 - SAS data definition statements are now available for this collection and the SPSS data definition statements have been updated.
 
Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Census of State Adult Correctional Facilities, 1979
 

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