*Data Available*: Child Welfare Policies and Demographic Characteristics: A Compilation of State-Level Data

[Andres Arroyo <aa17@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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:

"Child Welfare Policies and Demographic 
Characteristics: A Compilation of State-Level Data"

Investigator: Hansen, M.

The NDACAN User's Guide PDF for these data 
contains the codebook and is available for free download at this page:
http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/Ndacan/Datasets/Abstracts/DatasetAbstract_125.html
There you will also find a link to ordering instructions.

  Abstract: Child Welfare Policies and 
Demographic Characteristics: A Compilation of 
State-Level Data is a suite of datasets gathered 
from various sources. All datasets in this suite 
contain information about states. It is intended 
to be a resource for researchers doing policy 
studies in the areas of foster care, adoption, 
and child abuse, and is intended as a supplement 
to the AFCARS and NCANDS datasets. It consists of 
five studies, their data, and final reports (if any).

The common thread linking this suite of datasets 
is that the level of analysis is always states. 
This information can be used to group or classify 
states in some domain, coupled with using the 
AFCARS or NCANDS data to explore how states or 
groups of states compare. The intention is that 
this process will increase the value of AFCARS 
and NCANDS for analyzing the effects of policy differences across states.

Most of the data were gleaned from reports 
published by academic or public interest 
organizations, such as The Urban Institute, the 
North American Council on Adoptable Children, or 
the John F. Kennedy School of Government at 
Harvard University. Each of these reports is 
available at the organization's web site, and is 
included in the files that accompany this User 
Guide in PDF format. The value of this 
compilation is in providing the data in a form 
that is readily readable by statistical programs 
such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata, and in compiling in 
one place the descriptions of the variables and 
values contained in the reports.

Other data in this suite were collected from the 
United States Bureau of the Census and Wikipedia, a web-based encyclopedia.

http://www.ndacan.cornell.edu/Ndacan/Datasets/Abstracts/DatasetAbstract_125.html

Sincerely,
   Andrés Arroyo
   Administrative Assistant
   National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN)
   Beebe Hall - FLDC
   College of Human Ecology
   Cornell University
   Ithaca NY 14853
Phone: 607-255-7799 * Fax: 607-255-8562
E-mail: NDACAN@cornell.edu
Web site: www.ndacan.cornell.edu





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