National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) Child File, FFY 2019

The National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) Child File dataset consists of child-specific data of all investigated reports of maltreatment to State child protective service agencies. The NCANDS is a federally-sponsored annual national data collection effort created for the purpose of tracking the volume and nature of child maltreatment reporting. The Child File is the case-level component of the NCANDS. There is also an NCANDS State-level component, known as the Agency File, but those data are not part of this collection. States participate on a voluntary basis and submit their data after going through a process in which the state’s administrative system is mapped to the NCANDS data structure. Submitted data consist of all investigations or assessments of alleged child maltreatment that received a disposition in the reporting year. Records are provided at the level of each child on a report, also known as the report-child pair. Data elements include the demographics of children and their perpetrators, types of maltreatment, investigation or assessment dispositions, risk factors, and services provided as a result of the investigation or assessment.全国儿童虐待与忽视数据系统（National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System，NCANDS）儿童档案数据集，收录了所有提交给州儿童保护服务机构、经调查核实的虐待举报相关的儿童专属数据。NCANDS是一项由联邦资助的年度全国性数据收集项目，旨在追踪儿童虐待举报的规模与特征。儿童档案是NCANDS的个案层级组成部分；该系统还设有州级组成部分，称为机构档案，但该部分数据不属于本次数据集的收录范围。各州以自愿方式参与本项目，需先完成将本州行政体系映射至NCANDS数据结构的流程，方可提交数据。本次提交的数据涵盖报告年度内所有针对疑似儿童虐待行为的调查或评估且已得出最终处置结果的案例。数据集以每份举报对应的每名儿童为单位记录数据，即所谓的“举报-儿童配对”条目。数据字段涵盖儿童及其施虐者的人口统计学特征、虐待类型、调查或评估的最终处置结果、风险因素，以及因该调查或评估而提供的服务内容。

搜集汇总

背景与挑战

背景概述

该数据集是美国2019年联邦财政年度的NCANDS儿童文件，用于追踪全国儿童虐待报告的数量和性质，包含各州儿童保护服务机构调查的儿童特定数据，如人口统计、虐待类型和调查结果。数据通过各州自愿提交收集，聚焦于案例级别的报告-儿童配对信息。