National Consortium on Violence Research
A research, training, and data resource specializing in violence research.
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Data Analysis Workbooks

NCOVR provides various data workbooks for use by students. The workbooks introduce students to data resources available on the web and to basic statistical data analysis techniques. Problem sets in each workbook provide students with an opportunity to apply the techniques to real-world data.

VIOLENCE IN THE U.S. — DATA WORKBOOKS

INTRODUCTION
The Violence in the United States Workbooks provide students with an opportunity to explore various features of violent offending in the United States using a number of national data resources. The aim is to introduce students to data resources available on the internet and provide hands on experience in basic data analysis. Each workbook introduces a violence-related topic, provides links to online data, and provides a series of problem sets based on that data.

Data and analyses are organized around individual violence topics.

  • Counts and Population Rates
  • Gender and Violence (forthcoming)
  • Youth Violence (forthcoming)
  • Communities and Violence (forthcoming)
  • Violence and the Criminal Justice System—From Incident to Arrest (forthcoming)

GETTING STARTED - TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE

WEB-BASED DATA RESOURCES
The data include: