The data include the characteristics of juveniles taken into custody, the rates at which juveniles are taken into custody, the number who died in custody and the circumstances of their deaths, and the trends demonstrated by the data. The statistics revealed that between 1979 and 1989, juvenile admissions to public and private juvenile custody facilities have increased steadily from 638,309 to 760,644. nearly 94 percent were held in juvenile facilities, and 9 percent of all juvenile admissions annually were to adult jails or prisons. Minorities amounted to 52 percent of the population in custody in 1989. Female admissions to jails and all juvenile facilities made up more than one in five admissions. In 1989, 73 percent of juvenile status offenders were held in nonsecure facilities. During fiscal year 1991, significant progress occurred in testing the design of the National Juvenile Corrections System Reporting Program. Tables and figures