At our 2023 Methods Meeting, Addressing Unit Missingness in Social Policy Survey Research, experts discussed the reasons for declining survey response rates, the potential for increased nonresponse bias, and the implications of missing data for human services research, programmatic decisions, and policy decision-making. Meeting presenters addressed research design strategies to reduce nonresponse and mitigate the impact of missing data on resulting estimates. This document from our research partner Westat Insight provides a list of resources for readers who wish to learn more about survey unit missingness, organized as a series of frequently asked questions. https://buff.ly/3AKUUCH #Data #Statistics #Methods
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We build evidence to improve the lives of children and families.
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OPRE builds evidence to improve the lives of children and families. We aim to increase knowledge about effective approaches to helping low-income children and families by sponsoring rigorous research and evaluation projects and by working to increase the quality, usefulness, sharing, and analysis of data. Our work includes descriptive and exploratory studies, implementation and impact studies, measure development, data improvement, and evaluation technical assistance. We work in program areas including welfare, employment, and family self-sufficiency; child care; Head Start and Early Head Start; child abuse and neglect; teen pregnancy prevention and sexual risk avoidance; healthy marriage; responsible fatherhood; family violence; and home visiting. Our work is guided by ACF’s Evaluation Policy, which states that ACF seeks to promote rigor, relevance, transparency, independence, and ethics in the conduct of evaluations.
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Happy #WorldWaterWeek! This international observance spotlights global water issues and the necessity of access to clean and safe water sources. The Office of Community Services (OCS) is proud to support rural and tribal water quality and affordability needs across the country through the Rural Community Development (RCD) program and to have eased water burdens for households with low incomes through the Low Income Household Water Assistance Program (LIHWAP). Please visit our landing page and explore our various resources, including a new StoryMap and updated LIHWAP one-pagers, to learn more: https://acf.mobi/3AzAcG9 #WWW
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Today, we honor the progress made in the fight for women’s equality and recognize the work still needed to achieve true parity. Let’s continue to break barriers, uplift women’s voices, and work towards a world where everyone has equal opportunities. #WomensEqualityDay #EmpowerWomen
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Check out the latest OPRE Insights blog post, "Can We All Develop the Superpowers of Knowledge Brokers?"! Imagine a world where superheroes don’t just fly or have super strength—they bridge the gaps between research, practice, and policy to support evidence use. Welcome to the realm of knowledge brokers, the unsung heroes who translate complex data into actionable insights. Read the full article:
Can We All Develop the Superpowers of Knowledge Brokers?
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How do state child welfare agencies use data integrated into their system of record? Learn more in this new brief from our research partner Mathematica, which highlights select findings from the State Child Welfare Data Linkages Descriptive Study about linked and integrated data. https://buff.ly/3Mezuk5 #Data #ChildWelfare
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This series of briefs from the Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce (BASE) project and our research partners MDRC, Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago and MEF Associates shares findings about educators’ credential attainment, entry, earnings, tenure, and exits in the child care and early education (CCEE) field based on analyses of administrative data from three states. The briefs cover the following topics: • Workers’ entry, exit, and wages in the CCEE sector in Illinois; • Individuals’ enrollment in and completion of early childhood education postsecondary programs in Colorado, as well as the characteristics of these students and their CCEE employment outcomes; • Retention and credential attainment of educators in the CCEE field in Montana; and • Methods for using states’ UI wage data to better understand the experiences of the CCEE workforce over time. https://buff.ly/46IAvdr #ECE #Workforce #DataAnalysis #EarlyLearning
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/building-and-sustaining-child-care-and-early-education-workforce-secondary-data
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This new report from our research partner Child Trends details two conceptual models to guide analyses of research on Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) policies. The first model highlights the interconnected contexts (e.g., historical events or leadership changes) that that may affect CCDF policymaking, administration, implementation, and outcomes. The second model maps the outputs and outcomes that align with the goals of the CCDF program to support parents’ access to affordable, stable, high-quality child care that meets their needs and preferences. https://buff.ly/3WAJA3i #ECE #ChildCare #CCDF
Tools and Strategies for Examining the Relationship between Child Care Subsidy Policies and Trends in Child, Family, and Provider Outcomes
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The State Child Welfare Data Linkages (SCW) Descriptive Study aims to provide novel information regarding connected (linked or integrated) state data that may be leveraged to improve the ongoing and accurate surveillance of child maltreatment incidence and related risk. This technical report from our research partner Mathematica describes the study design and methodological information for all of the data collection activities, including instrument development, constructs addressed, logistics, and response rates. The instruments are included as appendices. https://buff.ly/464Lq0P #Data #ChildWelfare
State Child Welfare Data Linkages Descriptive Study Technical Report: Study Background and Design
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This report from our research partner RTI International describes the child welfare system (CWS) involvement of children and families participating in the third cohort of the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well-Being (NSCAW III) baseline data collection. The report addresses the following research questions: • What are the characteristics of children and families in contact with the CWS beginning in 2017? • To what extent are children entering the CWS via pathways other than a maltreatment investigation or assessment? What are their characteristics? • What are the main reasons for child welfare involvement? • What services needs were identified by caseworkers, and of those, which services were received by children and their caregivers? • What levels of contact and satisfaction with caseworkers were reported by children and their caregivers? • What were the children’s experiences of placement changes reported by caseworkers? https://buff.ly/3X8c06e #Data #ChildWelfare
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/opre/report/nscaw-iii-baseline-report-2017-2022-child-and-family-involvement-child-welfare-system