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Long-term missing persons in Australia

Data collected on persons considered a long-term missing person (LTMP) as at 19 May 2020. Persons included were listed as LTMP on National Missing Persons Coordination Centre (NMPCC) and Australian Missing Person Register (AMPR) websites on 19 May 2020. Searches were carried out using the LTMP’s name including variations and/or alternate names used or reported as used by that individual. This data was collected to determine if publicly available data could be gathered for the purposes of creating a dataset. This dataset was analysed to establish if such a dataset could be compared to results from existing studies and if so where those results similar or different. Having such a dataset created from publicly available data provided an additional avenue for datasets as opposed to relying only on stakeholder's information. Data was collected from Coroner's reports, law enforcement media releases (including archived) NMPCC and/or AMPR, Trove – online library of current and historical information obtained from universities, museums, galleries, and archives, crime stoppers, ancestry records, cemetery records/images, news/media reports, social network/media platforms i.e., LinkedIn, Facebook, and random ad hoc websites/pages.

Software/equipment used to create/collect the data: Equipment Computer: DELL, System Name R6SR05D, Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40 GHz, 16.0 GB RAM, Windows 10 Pro installed.

Software/equipment used to manipulate/analyse the data: Software: Excel Microsoft 365 (Version 2308)
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    Data collected on persons considered a long-term missing person (LTMP) as at 19 May 2020. Persons included were listed as LTMP on National Missing Persons Coordination Centre (NMPCC) and Australian Missing Person Register (AMPR) websites on 19 May 2020. Searches were carried out using the LTMP’s name including variations and/or alternate names used or reported as used by that individual. This data was collected to determine if publicly available data could be gathered for the purposes of creating a dataset. This dataset was analysed to establish if such a dataset could be compared to results from existing studies and if so where those results similar or different. Having such a dataset created from publicly available data provided an additional avenue for datasets as opposed to relying only on stakeholder's information. Data was collected from Coroner's reports, law enforcement media releases (including archived) NMPCC and/or AMPR, Trove – online library of current and historical information obtained from universities, museums, galleries, and archives, crime stoppers, ancestry records, cemetery records/images, news/media reports, social network/media platforms i.e., LinkedIn, Facebook, and random ad hoc websites/pages.

    Software/equipment used to create/collect the data: Equipment Computer: DELL, System Name R6SR05D, Processor Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6300U CPU @ 2.40 GHz, 16.0 GB RAM, Windows 10 Pro installed.

    Software/equipment used to manipulate/analyse the data: Software: Excel Microsoft 365 (Version 2308)

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    • Data type dataset
  • Keywords
    • Long-term missing persons
    • Australia
    • age
    • gender
    • ethnicity
    • jurisdiction
    • Australian Capital Territory
    • New South Wales
    • Northern Territory
    • Queensland
    • South Australia
    • Tasmania
    • Victoria
    • Western Australia
  • Funding source
    • Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship
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  • Start Date 2020/05/19
  • End Date 2020/05/19
    • Time Period Persons included in study were considered long-term missing as at 19 May 2020, data was collected on those people upto and including 31 December 2021
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  • Locations
    • Australia
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    Type Location Notes
    Attachment Long-term missing persons.csv Deidentified LTMP data used in study
    The Data Manager is: Diana Hardy
    College or Centre College of Science & Engineering
    Access conditions Open: free access under license
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    • Data record size 1 File: 444KB
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    Citation Belle, ; Hardy, Dianna (2023): Long-term missing persons in Australia. James Cook University. https://doi.org/10.25903/z9mn-y255