*Data Available*: AFCARS 2006: Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System

["Andres Arroyo" <aa17@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

The National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect
(NDACAN) at Cornell University is pleased to announce the availability of
the data for the study entitled:

Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS),
2006

Investigator: Children's Bureau, U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services

The User's Guide and User's Guide Supplements PDFs for these data contain
the codebook information and are available for free download at this
page:
http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/Ndacan/Datasets/Abstracts/DatasetAbstract_AFCARS_General.html

There you will also find a link to ordering instructions.

 Abstract: The AFCARS, or Adoption and Foster Care Analysis
and Reporting System, is a federal data collection effort that provides
child-specific information on all children covered by the protections of
Title IV-B and Title IV-E of the Social Security Act. On an annual basis,
all states submit data to the U.S. Children's Bureau, concerning each
child in foster care and each child who has been adopted under the
authority of the state's child welfare agency. The AFCARS databases have
been designed to address policy development and program management issues
at both the state and federal levels. The data are also useful for
researchers interested in analyzing aspects of the United States' foster
care and adoption programs. 
  The Archive distributes two data files for each federal fiscal
year since 1995, one file containing the adoption data and the other the
foster care data. The adoption file contains 45 data elements concerning
the adopted child's gender, race, birth date, ethnicity and prior
relationship with the adoptive parents. The date the adoption was
finalized, dates parental rights were terminated, characteristics of
birth and adoptive parents, and whether the child was placed from within
the United States or from another country are also captured. The foster
care file contains 89 elements providing information on child
demographics including gender, birth date, race, and ethnicity.
Information about the number of previous stays in foster care, service
goals, availability for adoption, dates of removal and discharge, funding
sources, and the biological and foster parents is also included in the
foster care files. 

http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/Ndacan/Datasets/Abstracts/DatasetAbstract_AFCARS_General.html

Sincerely,
 Andres Arroyo, Archiving Assistant
 National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN)
 Beebe Hall -FLDC, Cornell University, Ithaca NY 14853
 tel. 607-255-7799 | fax 607-255-8562 | www.ndacan.cornell.edu