Staff from BJS and the FBI will discuss the current state of their work with data from the FBI's?National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). This webinar will examine?
- the status of the NIBRS transition and how reporting has changed over time
- efforts to investigate the quality and completeness of NIBRS data to assess implications of data quality on coverage, estimates of bias, and the suitability of the data for generating national and state-level estimates on key indicators of crime
- lessons learned from working with NIBRS data, including how states can use the data to calculate state-level crime rates, ideas for standardizing the use and display of NIBRS data, and tools to facilitate the use of NIBRS data by both seasoned and novice users.
The webinar will be held on February 15, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET.
Join BJS and FBI staff for a discussion of the National NIBRS Estimation Project (NNEP), a joint effort to establish methodology to estimate reported crime based on data submitted to the FBI?s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS).?This webinar will cover?
- an overview of the work of the NNEP in recent years
- accomplishments to date
- efforts to evaluate NIBRS data
- implications of data quality and coverage for estimating crime at the state and national levels
- key indicators to be estimated through the new system.
The webinar will be held on February 17, 2022 at 1:00 p.m. ET.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics of the U.S. Department of Justice is the principal federal agency responsible for collecting, analyzing, and disseminating reliable statistics on crime and criminal justice in the United States. Doris J. James is the acting director.
For more information on BJS's publications, data collections, data analysis tools, and funding opportunities,?visit?BJS online.
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