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1 results foundAuthor: LaValle, Christina R. Title: Improving State Capacity for Crime Reporting: An Exploratory Analysis of Data Quality and Imputation Methods Using NIBRS Data Summary: Crime reporting in the United States originates from two major sources of data, the Uniform Crime Reports (UCR) and the National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The incident-based reporting (IBR) structure of NIBRS is an enhancement to the traditional summary reporting of UCR used to track crime in the U.S. While the law enforcement community initiated IBR to address the expanding complexity of crime, reporting crime using NIBRS, like UCR, is voluntary and susceptible to issues of data quality, missing data, and noncompliance. Data collected using UCR and NIBRS are used for research and to document the status of crime at the national, state, and county levels. Data quality regarding accuracy and completeness are critical to reliable results and information. Further, reporting data "as is" without considering data quality and estimating for missing values may not be the most accurate depiction of the process and can result in criticism. As funding and resources lessen, coupled with the multitude of data fields involved with IBR, issues of data quality and missingness are areas of concern for analysts and researchers. In assessing data quality and handling missing data, appropriate and effective methods for resolving issues are necessary. Currently, elaborate methods established by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are used to evaluate UCR data quality in terms of outlier detection (see Akiyama & Propheter, 2005). The FBI also imputes, or estimates, missing UCR data using methods that were developed in 1958 (Maltz, 1999). These methods are not timely, accurate, or easy for state programs to administer since they often use data from regions involving multiple states rather than the individual state. Moreover, methods have not yet been applied to aggregate crime count totals using NIBRS data and often reports using NIBRS data are criticized for being incomplete or non-representative. Details: Charleston, WV: West Virginia Division of Justice and Community Services, 2013. 37p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 25, 2014 at: http://www.djcs.wv.gov/sac/documents/imputereport_rev4.pdf Year: 2013 Country: United States URL: http://www.djcs.wv.gov/sac/documents/imputereport_rev4.pdf Shelf Number: 129924 Keywords: Crime MeasurementCrime ReportingCrime Statistics (West Virginia)National Incident-Based Reporting SystemUniversity Crime Reports |