National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) Combined
Aggregate File, FFY-2006
Dataset Number: 141
Investigator(s): Children's Bureau, U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services
Abstract: The
National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) Combined
Aggregate File (CAF) dataset consists of State-specific data of all
investigated reports of maltreatment to State child protective
service agencies. The NCANDS is a federally-sponsored national data
collection effort created for the purpose of tracking the volume and
nature of child maltreatment reporting each year within the United
States. The CAF is the State-level component of the NCANDS that
replaced the Summary Data Component (SDC) beginning in the year
2000. The CAF is created by merging three different NCANDS data
sources, the Child File, the Agency File, and the SDC, into a single
dataset. NCANDS Case-level data are collected through the Child File
data submission. States that submit a Child File also submit an
Agency File, which collects State-level data for areas not covered
in the Child File, such items as preventive services and
screened-out referrals. A small number of States continued to submit
NCANDS data using the SDC survey. Child File data are aggregated to
the State-level by key variables and then combined with the data
from the Agency file and the SDC to create the CAF. The number of
children and families receiving preventive services, the number of
reports and investigations of child abuse and neglect, the number of
children who were the subjects of reports of abuse or neglect, the
number of child victims of maltreatment, the number of child
fatalities, the size of the State's CPS workforce, and other
statistics are provided in the CAF. A variable crosswalk to the
1990-1999 SDC dataset is provided. Please note: In 2003, States
began submitting their data according to the Federal Fiscal Year
(October 1, 2002 - September 30, 2003) rather than the calendar
year.
List of NCANDS Publications:
NCANDS Publications
NCANDS 2006 Map of CAF Variables to Survey Items:
PDF
Annual Child Maltreatment Reports:
Children's Bureau
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