Assistance program
Special Data Collections and Statistical Studies
$172.4 Million committed in FY2018–FY2026
- Agency
- Office of Justice Programs, Justice, Department of
- Assistance
- Cooperative Agreements
- CFDA number
- 16.734
- What it does
- GOAL: To produce and disseminate relevant, accurate, timely, reliable, and objective information about the justice system at the Federal, State, local, and tribal levels. These data are critical to federal, state, local, and tribal policy-makers in addressing crime and ensuring that justice is both efficient and evenhanded. OBJECTIVE(s): Objective 1) Collect, analyze, publish, and disseminate information on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation of justice systems at all levels of government. Performance Measure 1: Percentage of all deliverables (including interim and final reports and data files) that are completed on time; Performance Measure 2: [FOR SURVEY COLLECTIONS]: Percent of respondents that complete surveys on time and adhere to data quality standards; Performance Measure 3: [FOR ADMINISTRATIVE DATA COLLECTIONS] Percent of respondents that provide records in the database that are complete, accurate, and responsive to the data request. Objective 2) Adhere to rigorous principles and practices to support the quality of BJS’s statistical activities. Performance Measure 1: Percentage of deliverables (including interim and final reports and data files) that meet BJS expectations; Performance Measure 2: [FOR SURVEY AND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA COLLECTIONS] Timely assessment of nonresponse that includes proactive and documented outreach to increase response rates; Performance Measure 3: [FOR SURVEY AND ADMINISTRATIVE DATA COLLECTIONS] Percentage of interim and final data sets that are comprehensive and accurate as determined by BJS, submitted with all appropriate supporting data and documentation. Objective 3: Protect the privacy and confidentiality of respondents and the trust of data providers, and adhere to applicable federal laws, regulations, policies, and other authorities that govern BJS data. Performance Measure: Adhere to BJS’s data security and confidentiality requirements to protect information identifiable to a private person that is collected in conjunction with the BJS-funded activities
Committed by fiscal year
* FY2026 is year-to-date — the fiscal year is still in progress, so its total is still filling in. The striped band and dashed line mark that provisional stretch.
Top recipients
By dollars committed.
How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments