Strategies for constructing household and family units with linked administrative records

Cuccaro-Alamin, Stephanie; Eastman, Andrea Lane; Foust, Regan; McCroskey, Jacquelyn; Nghiem, Huy; Putnam‐Hornstein, Emily

doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.105706

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“…Data integration also helps CalHHS and the departments avoid inefficiencies that inevitably arise from ad hoc record linkage efforts. Additionally, this work advances rigorous evaluation and research reproducibility by facilitating the development of well-documented and routinised processes for inventorying, cleansing, standardising, and linking client-level records across programs and allows for the development of a strategy to organise CalHHS data into family or household units-a critical context for CalHHS clients and service experiences [25,26]. But most importantly, this work supports CalHHS and departmental efforts to achieve better outcomes for all Californians through richer evaluation of policy options, improved stewardship of taxpayer dollars, and more coordinated design and delivery of public services [27].…”

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Children’s Data Network

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The Children's Data Network (CDN) is a data and research collaborative focused on the linkage and analysis of administrative records. In partnership with public agencies, philanthropic funders, affiliated researchers, and community stakeholders, we seek to generate knowledge and advance evidence-rich policies that improve the health, safety, and well-being of the children of California. Given our experience negotiating access to and working with existing administrative data (and importantly, data stewards), the CDN has demonstrated its ability to perform cost-effective and rigorous record linkage, answer time-sensitive policy- and program-related questions, and build the public sector's capacity to do the same. Owing to steadfast and generous infrastructure and project support, close collaboration with public partners, and strategic analyses and engagements, the CDN has promoted a person-level and longitudinal understanding of children and families in California and in so doing, informed policy and program development nationwide. We sincerely hope that our experience—and lessons learned—can advance and inform work in other fields and jurisdictions.

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“…This makes it impossible to accurately estimate the risk of family-level CPS recidivism. One way to overcome this limitation is to identify the entire universe of children born to an individual mother by linking CPS records to population-based vital birth records (Cuccaro-Alamin et al, 2021). This approach allows for estimating and examining the maternal-level risk of CPS recidivism.…”

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Predictors of Maternal Recidivism in the Child Protection System

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Child maltreatment recidivism is typically measured and studied at the individual level. Conditions that give rise to child abuse and neglect, however, typically affect multiple children in a given family. In the current study, we estimated maltreatment recidivism at the maternal level and examined its risk as a function of maternal sociodemographic characteristics that may change over time. Using linked administrative records, we identified a subset of first-time mothers in California whose first child was reported to the child protection system (CPS) between birth and age 5 and who then gave birth to another child ( n = 14,715). Following the firstborn child's CPS reporting, nearly half of these mothers (43.3%) were re-reported concerning the non-firstborn children during the first 5 years of the child's life. Risk factors consistently documented across births were associated with a heightened risk of maternal CPS recidivism. Our study advances an understanding of the full extent of maltreatment recidivism by broadening the focus from individual children.

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