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Child and Adolescent Injury: Data Sources
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| Data Set | National Incident Based Reporting System/ Uniform Crime |
| Reporting System |
| Alias | NIBRS |
| Data Collection Agency | Federal Bureau of Investigation |
| Purpose | To collect data on each crime incident for use in law |
| enforcement administration, operation, and management and |
| to provide national crime statistics for legislators, municipal |
| planners and administrators, criminologists and the general |
| public. |
| Description | Data collected on each incident and arrest within 22 offense |
| categories made up of 46 specific crimes and 11 additional |
| arrest categories. |
| Special Features | Demographic information on the victim and offender, |
| victim-offender relationship, type of weapon used, location of |
| offense, criminal activity and property loss. Chicagop statistics |
| are posted monthly by police district on Chicago Police |
| Department web page. |
| Subject Age Range | All |
| E-Coding Included | No |
| Population or Sample | Population |
| Number of Cases |
| Geographic Area Covered | National, Illinois, Chicago |
| Years Available | 1995-1998 |
| Years Owned by CHDL | None |
| CHDL ID# | 84 |