National Incident-Based Reporting System, 1996

ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes..

ICPSR 所提供的数据集均经过保密审查，且会在必要时进行调整，以降低数据泄露风险。此外，ICPSR还会常规生成即用型数据文件，搭配主流统计软件格式的配置脚本，以及随附数据的标准代码本。除上述流程外，ICPSR针对本次数据集还执行了以下处理步骤：核查未标注代码及超出取值范围的代码。