It is essential that the FBI comprehensively implement, assess and improve its estimation and imputation routines for all of the Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) components, including the ASR Arrest data, to ensure conformance with modern statistical practice and to make most effective use of partial-report data provided by participating agencies. As it promotes participation in the National Incident-Based Reporting System, the FBI must also more thoroughly document existing nonresponse and partial response in UCR series and examine barriers to fuller, voluntary response by law enforcement agencies. As conditions of this clearance, the FBI should (1) ensure that the Data Declarations and supporting text for the arrest tables in Crime in the United States, particularly the Table 29 national estimates, accurately describe which agencies arrest data are used in calculating reported totals and how data from partial-year respondents are handled; (2) include tabulations of numbers of months that ASR arrest data are reported by, at least, the city/county-population size groups currently reported in Crime in the United States Table 31 in the Methodology section of future Crime in the United States releases; and (3) report to OMB by May 2013 plans for improving the estimation and imputation procedures for the ASR arrest data collection and plans for securing fuller participation by agencies that are chronic nonreporters or partial reporters to the ASR arrest data collection.
Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
05/31/2014
36 Months From Approved
12/31/2012
434,592
0
425,712
97,783
0
95,785
0
0
0
Forms 1-708 and 1-708a are used to collect age, sex, and race of persons arrested from law enforcement agencies. Following auditing and processing, the data are published annually in Crime in the United States and in the Age-Specific and Race-Specific publication.
US Code:
28 USC 534
Name of Law: Acquistion, Preservation, and Exchange of Identification Records; Appointment of Officials
The increase is due to the increase in the number of participating law enforcement agencies.
$461,060
No
No
No
No
No
Uncollected
Patricia Faulkner 304 625-2000
No
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
Form 1-708 Age, Sex, and Race of Persons Arrested 18 Years of Age and Over; Age, Sex, and Race of Persons Arrested Under 18 Years of Age
1110-0005_ PART B.doc
1110-0005 signature.pdf
28usc534.doc.docx
Age, Sex, and Race of Persons Arrested 18 Years of Age and Over; Age, Sex, and Race of Persons Arrested Under 18 Years of Age