National Survey of Court Organization

The agency arranged for the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research to prepare the data and documentation for public use. This series contains information about all courts in the United States: appellate courts, courts of general jurisdiction, special courts, and other courts of limited jurisdiction.

Records include information on th e organization of the court, geographic location, type of court, level of government administering the court, number, types, and full - or part - time status of judicial and other personnel, method of appealing cases, location of court records, and types of statistics. Court subdivision variables cover organization of the courts, geographic location, type of court, level of government administering the court, types of jurisdiction, percentage of judges' time spent on types of cases, availability of jury trials, and length of sentence and amounts of fines which may be imposed by the court.