Watch the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) discuss their work with data from the FBI?s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). The webinar covers?
- the ongoing NIBRS transition and how crime reporting has changed over time
- efforts to examine the quality and completeness of NIBRS data to assess how data quality affects coverage, bias estimates, and the ability to generate national- and state-level estimates of key crime indicators
- 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 make NIBRS data helpful to both seasoned and novice users.
Hear the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) talk about the National NIBRS Estimation Project (NNEP), their joint effort to establish methods for estimating crime based on data that law enforcement reports to the FBI?s National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS). This webinar covers?
- the NNEP?s work in recent years
- accomplishments to date
- efforts to evaluate NIBRS data
- how data quality and coverage affect crime estimates at the national and state levels
- key crime indicators to be produced through the new system and when official NIBRS-based crime estimates are expected to be released.
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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