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National Inmate Survey (NIS) - Jails: Alternative Survey Respondents Only, [United States], 2007-2009
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The National Inmate Survey (NIS) is part of the Bureau of Justice Statistics' (BJS) National Prison Rape Statistics Program, which gathers mandated data on the incidence and prevalence of sexual assault in correctional facilities under the Prison Rape Elimination Act of 2003 (PREA; P.L. 108- 79). Inmates are randomly assigned to receive either a survey of sexual victimization or a survey of mental and physical health, past drug and alcohol use, and treatment for substance abuse. The data in this study focuses solely upon substance use and treatment from the "alternative" version of the survey.
These 6,577 respondents contained in this file who completed the "alternative" survey are the same 6,577 alternative respondents from the study National Inmate Survey (NIS) - Jails: Full Survey Respondents, [United States], 2007-2009 (ICPSR 37011).
Detailed Methodology
The NIS-1, conducted between April and August 2007, randomly selected 282 jails nationally. Then between October 2008 and December 2009 the NIS-2 randomly selected 286 jails. There was a total of 156,019 inmates selected during the two distinct waves of data collection. A total of 93,480 ended up participating in the survey. About 10 percent of participating NIS-1 respondents and 5 percent of participating NIS-2 respondents were asked to complete this alternative survey.Please refer to the codebook for details about the study sampling provided by the Principal Investigator.