National Inmate Survey (NIS) - Jails: Alternative Survey Respondents Only, [United States], 2011-2012

Between February 2011 and May 2012 the NIS-3 randomly selected 358 jails. There was a total of 81,306 inmates selected during data collection. A total of 60,032 inmates ended up participating in the survey. Of that total, about 10 percent (5,914 inmates) were randomly selected to complete the alternative survey. Of these 5,914 inmates who were selected and received the survey there were 5,494 individuals who actually completed a sufficient amount of the survey.Please refer to the codebook for details about the study sampling provided by the Principal Investigator.