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Survey Designs

FY 2023 Annual Survey of Jails in Indian Country, 2024-27

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The goals of this project are to field the survey instrument and to analyze the data it collects to produce high quality and accurate statistics and analyses for the 2024 through 2027 iterations of the Survey of Jails in Indian Country (SJIC). In addition, BJS expects the award recipient to recommend enhancements for the SJIC, cognitively test revised and new questions, and field an addendum...

FY 2023 Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) Program, 2023–2026

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) will administer the 2023 2026 Firearm Inquiry Statistics (FIST) program. The goal of fist is to provide national estimates on the total number of firearm purchase applications received and denied pursuant to the Brady Act and relevant state laws. FIST collects counts of firearm transfer applications and permit checks conducted by state and local checking agencies and combines them...

FY 2023 Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories

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The Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) will conduct the 2023 Census of Publicly Funded Forensic Crime Laboratories, following the data collection last conducted for 2020. The goal of this collection is to obtain updated information about the staffing, resources, workload, policies, and procedures of all publicly funded forensic crime laboratories in the U.S. The main activities for the project include survey design, frame development and...

FY 2022 Survey of Inmates in Local Jails: Pretest Sample Enhancement

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The main objectives of this project are to conduct research on the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails (SILJ) instrument and sampling design and to create and pilot test a revised instrument and sampling method for the next iteration of the survey collection. BJS plans to conduct a pretest of the revised SILJ which includes changes to address current issues of the local jail population...