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    • Census of Medical Examiners' and Coroners' Offices (MECO) Series

    Metadata Updated: November 14, 2025

    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 are included regarding FTE employees, contractors, and annual budgets.

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    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025

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    Harvested from DOJ JSON

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    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 18, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date November 14, 2025
    Publisher Bureau of Justice Statistics
    Maintainer
    Identifier 2440
    Data First Published 2007-07-26T00:00:00
    Language eng
    Data Last Modified 2021-12-16T10:12:52
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 011:21
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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 d55b0b020fb6b8488f9c95bba92e4ab131e9029a8f4edbf67c5acafb9f7415b2
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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