Chapter V: State Performance Relevant to the Seven National Child Welfare Outcomes
Child Welfare Outcomes 2002-2005 State Data Pages
The previous chapters provide key findings of an analysis of performance across States relevant to the seven national child welfare outcomes. This chapter presents data for each State on the 12 measures originally developed for the Child Welfare Outcomes Reports, and on an additional 15 measures recently developed for the second round of the Child and Family Services Reviews. As noted in earlier chapters, the 15 additional measures are relevant to the seven national child welfare outcomes addressed in the Child Welfare Outcomes Report. Therefore, data on these measures are included in this report and will be included in all future Child Welfare Outcomes Reports.
The data pages also include the composite scores for each State for the four CFSR-related composites for informational purposes. These composite scores are based on the results of a Principal Components Analysis conducted by the Children’s Bureau. This process is explained in detail in the Federal Register Announcement published on the Children’s Bureau’s website at
http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/cwmonitoring/legislation/fed_reg.htm
The data on the outcome measures are presented by State rather than by measure. This is because the focus of the Child Welfare Outcomes Reports is on continuous improvement in performance within each State rather than on comparisons of performance across States.
Viewing the State Data Pages
The State data pages are structured as follows:
- Data for the context variables.
- Data showing State performance on the original outcome measures.
- Data pertaining to State performance on the 15 new measures and the State’s composite scores for 2005.
- State Comment Page: A page presenting each State’s comments on its own data (provided only when a State submitted a comment for publication).
- Federal Comment Page: A brief summary prepared by the Department of the strengths and opportunities for improvement with regard to the seven outcome domains.
The following convention was used to distinguish among various types of data reporting:
- If a State’s data for any of the context variables or outcome measures was 0 percent, this is indicated by a 0.0.
- If a State’s data was greater than 0 percent but less than 0.1 percent, this is indicated by a < 0.1.
- If a particular cell is not applicable to a State, that is, there is no reason to assume that the State would have data for that cell, this is indicated by NA.
- If a particular cell is applicable to a State, that is, there is reason to assume that the State would have data for that cell but no data were provided, this is indicated by a dash (-).
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