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This research completed a three-year study of the impact of a prison record on gaining employment. It included two separate experiments and an employer survey in the research. The first experiment involved the submission of more than 6,000 online applications for entry-level jobs. The second experiment sent individuals (auditors) to apply for 60 jobs in-person. The third research method was a survey conducted among 49 employers, all of whom were included in the second experiment.

The collection contains 3 SPSS data files:

file1-male_and_female_inperson_data.sav (n=518; 17 variables) file2-employer_survey-ICPSR.sav (n=48; 79 variables) file3-male_and_female_online_data.sav (n=6,198; 19 variables)