Guide

Author

Affiliation

Hung Kit William Chiu

UCSB Econ

The page provides a comprehensive guide to how the incident-level, multi-city crime data can be prepared, harmonized, and linked to Census data.

• Data Preparation: harmonization of data sets from different agencies and mapping to census tracts

• Geocoding*: geocoding of street addresses to facilitate Census tract mapping

• Crime Classification: classification of local offense categories to uniform NIBRS standard

• Census Data: geographic crosswalks of Census data

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