DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04009
title: Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: County-Level Detailed Arrest and Offense Data, 2002
title: Archival Version

description: This data collection contains county-level counts of
arrests and offenses for Part I offenses (murder, rape, robbery,
aggravated assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft, and arson) and
counts of arrests for Part II offenses (forgery, fraud, embezzlement,
vandalism, weapons violations, sex offenses, drug and alcohol abuse
violations, gambling, vagrancy, curfew violations, and runaways).
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Arrests, All Ages
DS2: Arrests, Adult
DS3: Arrests, Juveniles
DS4: Crimes Reported
DS5: Allocated Statewide Data for Arrests, All Ages
DS6: Allocated Statewide Data for Arrests, Adults
DS7: Allocated Statewide Data for Arrests, Juveniles
DS8: Allocated Statewide Data for Crimes Reported
description: County law enforcement agencies in the United States.
description: Two major changes to the Uniform Crime Reports
(UCR) county-level files were implemented beginning with the 1994
data. A new imputation algorithm to adjust for incomplete reporting by
individual law enforcement jurisdictions was adopted. Within each
county, data from agencies reporting 3 to 11 months of information
were weighted to yield 12-month equivalents. Data for agencies
reporting less than 3 months of data were replaced with data estimated
by rates calculated from agencies reporting 12 months of data located
in the agency's geographic stratum within its state. Secondly, a new
Coverage Indicator was created to provide users with a diagnostic
measure of aggregated data quality in a particular county. Data from
agencies reporting only statewide figures were allocated to the
counties in the state in proportion to each county's share of the
state population.In the arrest files (Parts 1-3 and 5-7), data
were estimated for agencies reporting zero months based on the
procedures mentioned above. However, due to the structure of the data
received from the FBI, estimations could not be produced for agencies
reporting zero months in the crimes reported files (Parts 4 and 8).
Offense data for agencies reporting one or two months are estimated
using the above procedures. Users are encouraged to refer to the
codebook for more information.No arrest data were provided for
Florida. Limited arrest data were available for Illinois. Limited
offense data were available for Illinois, Kentucky, Mississippi,
Montana, and South Dakota.UCR program staff at the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) were consulted in developing the new adjustment
procedures. However, these UCR county-level files are not official FBI
UCR releases and are being provided for research purposes only. Users
with questions regarding these UCR county-level data files can contact
the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data at ICPSR.Users
should note that there are no records in the data for the borough of
Denali, Alaska (FIPS code 02068) in any of the collections of the
Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: County-Level
Detailed Arrest and Offense Data from 1990 to 2003. The borough of
Denali, Alaska (FIPS code 02068) was created from part of the
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area (FIPS code 02290) an unpopulated part of the
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area (FIPS code 02240) effective December
7, 1990. Since no agency records for either arrests or crimes reported
from Denali were present in any of the original FBI files, no data for
the borough of Denali, Alaska appear in any the ICPSR collections for
these years.