DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02542.v1
title: Florida's Criminal Justice Workforce Research Information System, 1985-1996
title: Version 1

description: This project sought to prove that research files could be
 created through the extraction of personnel management systems
 data. There were five goals associated with designing and creating the
 Florida Criminal Justice Workforce Research Information System: (1) to
 extract data from two transaction management information systems,
 which could then be used by researchers to describe and analyze the
 workforce that administers justice in Florida, (2) to pilot test the
 concept of developing a new research information source from existing
 data systems, (3) to forge partnerships with diverse criminal justice
 agencies having a mutual need to understand their respective
 workforces, (4) to design research files to enable internal and
 external researchers to utilize the data for analytical purposes, and
 (5) to describe the methodology used to create the workforce
 information system in sufficient detail to enable other states to
 replicate the process and develop their own criminal justice workforce
 research databases. The project was jointly conceived, designed, and
 completed by two state-level criminal justice agencies with diverse
 missions and responsibilities: the Florida Department of Law
 Enforcement (FDLE) and the Florida Department of Corrections
 (FDC). Data were extracted from two personnel management systems: the
 Automated Transaction Management System (ATMS) operated by the Florida
 Department of Law Enforcement, which contains data on all certified
 law enforcement, correctional, and correctional probation officers in
 Florida (Part 1), and the Cooperative Personnel Employment System
 (COPES) operated by the Department of Management Services, which
 contains data on all state employees (Part 2). Parts 3-5 consist of
 data extracted from Parts 1 and 2 regarding certification status (Part
 3), education (Part 4), and training (Part 5). Two demographic
 variables, race and sex, are found in all parts. Parts 1 and 2 also
 contain variables on employment event type, employer type, position
 type, salary plan, job class, appointment status, and supervisor
 indicator. Part 3 variables are certification event type and
 certificate type. Part 4 variables include degree earned and area of
 degree. Part 5 includes a variable for passing or failing training
certification.
description: For decades, researchers have been using data
 relating to offenders, sentencing, and criminal justice processes that
 are extracted from various types of management information systems.
 This project sought to prove that similar research files could also be
 created through the extraction of personnel management systems
 data. There were five goals associated with designing and creating the
 Florida Criminal Justice Workforce Research Information System: (1) to
 extract data from two transaction management information systems,
 which could then be used by researchers to describe and analyze the
 workforce that administers justice in Florida, (2) to pilot test the
 concept of developing a new research information source from existing
 data systems, (3) to forge partnerships with diverse criminal justice
 agencies having a mutual need to understand their respective
 workforces, (4) to design research files to enable internal and
 external researchers to utilize the data for analytical purposes, and
 (5) to describe the methodology used to create the workforce
 information system in sufficient detail to enable other states to
 replicate the process and develop their own criminal justice workforce
research databases.
description: The project was jointly conceived, designed, and
 completed by two state-level criminal justice agencies with diverse
 missions and responsibilities: the Florida Department of Law
 Enforcement (FDLE) and the Florida Department of Corrections
 (FDC). Data were extracted from two personnel management systems: the
 Automated Transaction Management System (ATMS) operated by the Florida
 Department of Law Enforcement, which contains data on all certified
 law enforcement, correctional, and correctional probation officers in
 Florida (Part 1), and the Cooperative Personnel Employment System
 (COPES) operated by the Department of Management Services, which
 contains data on all state employees (Part 2). Parts 3-5 consist of
 data extracted from Parts 1 and 2 regarding certification status (Part
3), education (Part 4), and training (Part 5).
description: Two demographic variables, race and sex, are found
 in all parts. Parts 1 and 2 also contain variables on employment event
 type, employer type, position type, salary plan, job class,
 appointment status, and supervisor indicator. Part 3 variables are
 certification event type and certificate type. Part 4 variables
 include degree earned and area of degree. Part 5 includes a variable
for passing or failing training certification.
description: Response Rates: Not applicable.
description: Presence of Common Scales: None.
description: Unknown.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Automated Transaction Management System (ATMS) Employment Data
DS2: Cooperative Personnel Employment System (COPES) Data
DS3: Certification Status Extract Data
DS4: Education Event Extract Data
DS5: Training Event Extract Data
description: All criminal justice employees in Florida in 1996.
description: (1) The last record of each of the data files for
 Parts 2-5 ends in the middle of the record. ICPSR was unable to verify
 the correct case counts for these files with the principal
 investigators. (2) The user guide and codebook are provided by ICPSR
 as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file. The PDF file format was
 developed by Adobe Systems Incorporated and can be accessed using PDF
 reader software, such as the Adobe Acrobat Reader. Information on how
 to obtain a copy of the Acrobat Reader is provided on the ICPSR
Website.