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    • National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW)

    Metadata Updated: March 26, 2025

    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

    Demographic Indicators: Disability;Ethnicity;Geographic Areas;Household Income;Household Size;Race

    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

    Granularity: Individual

    Spatial: United States

    Geocoding: Unavailable

    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/9my6-rhui
    Data First Published 2023-11-17
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-03
    Category ACF
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:70
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
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    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/project/national-survey-child-and-adolescent-well-being-nscaw-1997-2014-and-2015-2024
    Program Code 009:102
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 0e99e875e06a290b154f7173abce12d9a8130c0ff25652f136135f66061b1392
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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