Incarceration

The links below provide users with information on a selection of national data sets used to capture individual's experiences with law enforcement and incarceration utilizing multiple measures, including criminal record (i.e., arrested, convicted, and/or sentenced), frequencies of occurrences, types of crimes committed, and dates of occurrence.

Each spreadsheet contains detailed information on the following...

• Question wording
• Responses
• Respondent
• Variable name
• Codebook location
• Valid responses [cross sectionally and longitudinally] or unweighted frequencies

• American Community Survey (ACS)

• Decennial Census

• The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study

• National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS)

• National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health)

• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79)

• National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97)

• National Survey of Drug Use and Health (NSDUH)

• National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG)

• Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)

• Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

• Transition into Adulthood Study (TA)
  A Panel Study of Income Dynamics Supplement

Suggested Citation:

National Center for Family & Marriage Research. Measures Snapshots. Pilot Data: Name of Data Set. Retrieved from http://www.bgsu.edu/ncfmr/resources/data/measures-snapshots/incarceration.html