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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- State officials have pulled a preliminary report on 2009 crime rates, saying some of its data may be skewed.
The Bureau of Criminal of Identification says incident numbers for 2009 various crimes are correct, but some percentages and comparisons are wrong because incorrect data from 2008 was included.
Bureau chief Alice Moffat told The Salt Lake Tribune in a story on the newspaper's website Tuesday that the report will be republished once corrections are made.
Bureau supervisor Jacob Dunn says the problem is tied to a computer formatting error. Data tables that compared crime trends between 2008 and 2009 were sorted, but the numbers were not correctly matched with category names. That produced incorrect percentage changes.
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