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National Manpower Survey, 1973-1976 - Large Sheriff Department Chiefs' Survey, Part 3

NCJ Number
96153
Date Published
1979
Length
87 pages
Annotation
This codebook presents the questionnaire, variables, and coding information for the data set resulting from the survey of chiefs of large sheriff's departments, conducted from 1974 through 1976 as part of the National Manpower Survey.
Abstract
The introduction describes the study and discusses data standards as well as codebook information. The study, which included 11 separate surveys, assessed the adequacy of current criminal justice and law enforcement training programs, projected future training needs, and established need priorities training needs, and established need priorities for future training and assistance programs to be funded by the Law Enforcement Assistance Administration. The survey was stratified by department size, and the file includes 307 cases, which is 60.9 percent of the sample of chiefs of large sheriff departments. The codebook describes the variables and the data format.