Table 63 - Data Declaration
Table 63, Data Declaration
Arrest Trends, Suburban Areas, by Sex, 2010–2011
The FBI collects these data through the Uniform Crime Reporting Program.
General comments
- This 2-year trend table provides the reported number of males and females arrested in suburban areas in 2010 and 2011 and the percent change when the data for these 2 years are compared. The table also furnishes a breakdown of those data by gender for juveniles (persons under age 18).
- Suburban area law enforcement agencies are defined as all agencies within a currently designated Metropolitan Statistical Area, excluding those agencies that cover principal cities as defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget. (See Area Definitions.)
- These data represent the number of persons arrested; however, some persons may be arrested more than once during a year. Therefore, the statistics in this table could, in some cases, represent multiple arrests of the same person.
Methodology
The data used in creating this table were from all suburban area law enforcement agencies submitting 12 months of arrest data for both 2010 and 2011.
Population estimation
The FBI calculated 2011 state growth rates using the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 decennial state/national population figures and 2011 provisional state/national population estimates. The FBI then estimated population figures for city jurisdictions by applying the 2011 state growth rate to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau data.
Population estimates for 2010 are based on the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2010 decennial counts.