DOI: 10.3886/icpsr02538.v2
title: Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data [United States]: Arrests by Age, Sex, and Race for Police Agencies in Metropolitan Statistical Areas, 1960-1997
title: Version 2

description: These data provide information on the number of arrests reported to the Federal Bureau of Investigation's (FBI) Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program each year by police agencies in metropolitan statistical areas. Although not as well known as the "Crimes Known to the Police" data drawn from the Uniform Crime Report's Return A form, the arrest reports by age, sex, and race provide valuable data on 43 offenses. For this collection, the arrests reported by each agency were summarized for each of the years 1960 through 1997, and the original Uniform Crime Reports data were restructured to create two separate files for each year, a header record and a detail record. Header files can be linked to detail files by the originating agency identifier (ORI). Other variables that are common to both types of files are state, census group, year, division, and metropolitan statistical agency (MSA). The header datasets also include the agency name and the population covered. The detail files also contain the offense code and the age, sex, and race of the arrestees.
description: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Performed recodes and/or calculated derived variables..
description: Datasets: 
 
 DS0: Study-Level Files 
 DS1: Header File for 1960 
 DS2: Detail File for 1960 
 DS3: Header File for 1961 
 DS4: Detail File for 1961 
 DS5: Header File for 1962 
 DS6: Detail File for 1962 
 DS7: Header File for 1963 
 DS8: Detail File for 1963 
 DS9: Header File for 1964 
 DS10: Detail File for 1964 
 DS11: Header File for 1965 
 DS12: Detail File for 1965 
 DS13: Header File for 1966 
 DS14: Detail File for 1966 
 DS15: Header File for 1967 
 DS16: Detail File for 1967 
 DS17: Header File for 1968 
 DS18: Detail File for 1968 
 DS19: Header File for 1969 
 DS20: Detail File for 1969 
 DS21: Header File for 1970 
 DS22: Detail File for 1970 
 DS23: Header File for 1971 
 DS24: Detail File for 1971 
 DS25: Header File for 1972 
 DS26: Detail File for 1972 
 DS27: Header File for 1973 
 DS28: Detail File for 1973 
 DS29: Header File for 1974 
 DS30: Detail File for 1974 
 DS31: Header File for 1975 
 DS32: Detail File for 1975 
 DS33: Header File for 1976 
 DS34: Detail File for 1976 
 DS35: Header File for 1977 
 DS36: Detail File for 1977 
 DS37: Header File for 1978 
 DS38: Detail File for 1978 
 DS39: Header File for 1979 
 DS40: Detail File for 1979 
 DS41: Header File for 1980 
 DS42: Detail File for 1980 
 DS43: Header File for 1981 
 DS44: Detail File for 1981 
 DS45: Header File for 1982 
 DS46: Detail File for 1982 
 DS47: Header File for 1983 
 DS48: Detail File for 1983 
 DS49: Header File for 1984 
 DS50: Detail File for 1984 
 DS51: Header File for 1985 
 DS52: Detail File for 1985 
 DS53: Header File for 1986 
 DS54: Detail File for 1986 
 DS55: Header File for 1987 
 DS56: Detail File for 1987 
 DS57: Header File for 1988 
 DS58: Detail File for 1988 
 DS59: Header File for 1989 
 DS60: Detail File for 1989 
 DS61: Header File for 1990 
 DS62: Detail File for 1990 
 DS63: Header File for 1991 
 DS64: Detail File for 1991 
 DS65: Header File for 1992 
 DS66: Detail File for 1992 
 DS67: Header File for 1993 
 DS68: Detail File for 1993 
 DS69: Header File for 1994 
 DS70: Detail File for 1994 
 DS71: Header File for 1995 
 DS72: Detail File for 1995 
 DS73: Header File for 1996 
 DS74: Detail File for 1996 
 DS75: Header File for 1997 
 DS76: Detail File for 1997
description: Uniform Crime Reporting Program Data Series
description: (1) Starting in 1974, the data were provided monthly to the Federal Bureau of Investigation by local law enforcement agencies participating in the FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting Program. These monthly data were summarized by the UCR section to produce yearly arrest totals for each agency. Prior to 1974, local police agencies submitted annual, rather than monthly, summary reports of arrests by age, sex, and race. (2) Data for 1960-1972 were given to the principal investigator in 1976. Additional datasets for specific years were provided over the following 19 years. In 1996, through a cooperative arrangement between ICPSR, the Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, data were provided for the following years: 1973, 1977, 1979, 1981-1984, 1986-1989, 1991-1992, and 1994. (3) Because the data layout changed slightly in 1980, the data were restructured and reformatted at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1996 and 1997. All datasets now have the same layout, with pre-1980 codes and codes for 1980 and beyond clearly indicated. (4) The codebook is provided 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 through the ICPSR Web site.
description: Arrests reported by cooperating police agencies in metropolitan statistical areas in the United States from January 1960 through December 1997.