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    • National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS)

    Metadata Updated: March 26, 2025

    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

    Demographic Indicators: Disability;Ethnicity;Housing Status;Military;Race;Sex

    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

    Granularity: Individual;State

    Spatial: United States

    Geocoding: FIPS Code;State

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 30, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 26, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 30, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 26, 2025
    Publisher ACF
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://healthdata.gov/api/views/4gke-6u6b
    Data First Published 2023-11-17
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-03
    Category ACF
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:70
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 3c863083-329d-41c6-9ee5-f9cbb9225965
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://www.ndacan.acf.hhs.gov/datasets/datasets-list-ncands-child-file.cfm
    Program Code 009:084
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash cba898ffb60e7ce3524b1936247eeb76ffbc656eb9d2709b9dc0d572c6539a91
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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