The proposed fiscal year (FY) 2021 supplemental award for the National Crime Statistics Exchange (NCS-X) National Incident-Based Reporting System (NIBRS) Estimation Project will provide funding for the 12-month period from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022 to test the estimation processes developed

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under this award.

The original award included developing (1) procedures that can at minimum assess the quality and completeness of the submitted NIBRS data, (2) methods and techniques to adjust for item and unit nonresponse, and (3) an estimation procedure to generate national incident-based statistics from the reported data.

Statutory Authority:
Under section 302 of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act, BJS is authorized to "make grants to, or enter into cooperative agreements or contracts with public agencies, institutions of higher education, private organizations, or private individuals" for purposes of collecting and analyzing criminal justice statistics (34 U.S.C.

§ 10132(c)(1)).