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.

Units of Response: Report-Child Combination

Type of Data: Administrative

Tribal Data: Unavailable

Periodicity: Annual

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: https://www.ndacan.acf.hhs.gov/datasets/request-restricted-data.cfm

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.ndacan.acf.hhs.gov/datasets/order_forms/termsofuseagreement.pdf

Equity Indicators: Disability;Ethnicity;Gender Identity;Housing Status;Military;Race;Sex

Granularity: Individual;State

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: FIPS Code;State

The National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW) is a nationally representative, longitudinal survey of children and families who have been the subjects of investigation by Child Protective Services. There are currently two cohorts of available data (NSCAW I and NSCAW II) drawn from first-hand reports from children, parents, and other caregivers, as well as reports from caseworkers, teachers, and data from administrative records. NSCAW examines child and family well-being outcomes in detail and seeks to relate those outcomes to experience with the child welfare system and to family characteristics, community environment, and other factors.

Units of Response: Children and Families in the Child Welfare System

Type of Data: Survey

Tribal Data: Unavailable

Periodicity: Irregular

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: https://www.ndacan.acf.hhs.gov/datasets/order_forms/termsofuseagreement.pdf

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.ndacan.acf.hhs.gov/datasets/pdfs_user_guides/IntroNSCAWWave1.pdf

Equity Indicators: Disability;Ethnicity;Gender Identity;Geographic Areas;Household Income;Household Size;Race

Granularity: Individual

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: Unavailable