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Survey of Inmates in Local Jails, 2002 [United States]
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This collection provides nationally representative data on persons held prior to trial and on convicted offenders serving sentences in local jails or awaiting transfer to state prisons. Data cover individual characteristics of jail inmates, current offenses, sentences and time served, criminal histories, jail activities, conditions and programs, prior drug and alcohol use and treatment, and health care services provided while in jail. Part 1, Numeric Data, contains numeric data for all questions in the survey, while Part 2, Alphanumeric Data, consists of non-numeric answers to the "Other, Specify" selection available for some of the questions.
Detailed Methodology
The sample for the 2002 survey was selected from a universe of 3,365 jails housing 529,084 adult males, 67,464 adult females and 9,449 juvenile (both male and female) inmates. The sample design was a stratified two-stage selection, in which jails were selected in the first stages and inmates to be interviewed were selected in the second stage. In the first sampling stage, using a target jail sample size of 460, six separate strata were formed based on the size of the male, female, and juveniles populations in each jail.