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Department of Justice and prepared the following final report:
Document Title:
Codebook for “Creating a UCR Utility”
Author(s):
Michael D. Maltz ; Harald E. Weiss
Document No.:
215342
Date Received:
August 2006
Award Number:
2004-IJ-CX-0083
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CODEBOOK FOR “CREATING A UCR UTILITY”
Part of the Final Report to the National Institute of Justice
Prepared by
Michael D. Maltz
and
Harald E. Weiss
Criminal Justice Research Center
and
Department of Sociology
The Ohio State University
June, 23, 2006
This document is a research report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice. This report has not
been published by the Department. Opinions or points of view expressed are those of the author(s)
and do not necessarily reflect the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
Table of Contents
Running the Plotting Utility
1
Worksheet Definitions in State Data Files
3
State Abbreviations
4
Missingness Codes and Colors
5
Population Worksheet
6
Months Reported Worksheet
7
Covering ORIs Worksheet
8
Group Worksheet
9
SMSA Worksheet
10
Crime Category Worksheets
11
Revisions Worksheet
14
This document is a research report submitted to the U.S. Department of Justice. This report has not
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Running the Plotting Utility
Page 1
The charting utility is an Excel workbook, UCRPlot.xls. A few important points:
The next two buttons, “Las