Survey of inmates of local jails, 1983, United States
By: principal investigator, United States Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
Series: ICPSR -- 8274; ICPSR (Series) -- 8274
Publisher: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Ann Arbor, Mich
Language: und
Format: [computer file] /
Subjects: Prisoners; Statistics
Description: The Survey of Inmates of Local Jails, 1983 data were collected by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Justice Statistics. The respondents were selected from a universe of 3,600 institutions housing 190,000 male and 13,000 female inmates. The sample included 400 institutions, 4,300 male and 1,800 female inmates. The survey consists of information regarding socioeconomic characteristics and demographics of respondents, previous military service, prior criminal history, jail activities, drug and alcohol use, health care, and current offenses.
Notes: Holding archive: Criminal Justice Archive and Information Network.

ICPSR data class: Class II.

Data collected: 1983.

United States.

5,785 respondents, 1040 variables in the dataset, which has a logical record length of 1,850 characters.