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User's Guide to Nebraska Juvenile Court Case Records 1975- 1988

NCJ Number
152268
Date Published
1990
Length
32 pages
Annotation
This codebook for the Nebraska juvenile court case records of 1975-1988 presents introductory information, procedures for using the codebook, a variable list, and variable descriptions.
Abstract
The introduction traces the history of Nebraska's juvenile court reporting system, describes data-collection methods, summarizes related publications, profiles archived data files, and specifies terms of availability. A description of procedures for using the codebook includes an example of information that appears in the codebook for a typical variable. The information for a typical variable contains the starting location and width of the variable in the machine-readable data file, the variable number, the variable label, a description of the variable contents, and the code values occurring in the data for the variable. Other information for a typical variable includes the textual definitions of the codes, missing data codes, and an explanatory/cautionary note. The variable list presents 40 variables under the broad categories of identification variables, case variables, and background variables. Appended juvenile court statistical form and the original data collector's statement of acceptance