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Census of Medical Examiners' and Coroners' Offices, 2004

Metadata Updated: November 28, 2023

The Census of Medical Examiners' and Coroners' Offices (MECO) is a compilation of data on the practices of these offices, which are responsible for medical-legal death investigations. The data cover information such as the prevalence of unidentified human remains on record in medical examiners' and coroners' offices across the country, record-keeping practices, and final disposition practices such as burial, cremation, or other means. In addition, data were gathered on FTE employees, contractors, and annual budgets.

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Restricted: This dataset can only be accessed or used under certain conditions. License: us-pd

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Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date November 28, 2023

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Harvested from DOJ JSON

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
Metadata Updated Date November 28, 2023
Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
Maintainer
Identifier 773
Data First Published 2007-07-26T00:00:00
Language eng
Data Last Modified 2011-04-19T16:38:49
Rights These data are restricted due to the increased risk of violation of confidentiality of respondent and subject data.
Public Access Level restricted public
Bureau Code 011:21
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Metadata Catalog ID https://www.justice.gov/data.json
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Harvest Source Id 3290e90a-116f-42fc-86ac-e65521ef3b68
Harvest Source Title DOJ JSON
License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Program Code 011:061
Publisher Hierarchy Office of Justice Programs > Bureau of Justice Statistics
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash e785a1a37613e415a23e2a7ffd7471cad10d247163e7d3acbb9e229acfb0bfe2
Source Schema Version 1.1

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