Child Care and Development Fund, Using the ACF-801 Data Assessment Reports
Technical Bulletin #9r, revised February 2007
Using the ACF-801 Data Assessment Reports (Download in Word and PDF.)
I. Introduction |
Section II: Overview of the CCBIS Data Check Process |
Section III: The Summary Report |
Section IV: The Detail Report |
Section V: Summary and Conclusions
V. Summary and Conclusions
This Bulletin has presented information on how to use the data assessment reports returned to States after their ACF-801 submission. The Summary Report provides a view of the State’s data as a whole, and allows States to assess potential errors with extraction, mapping, or data collection. The Detail Report enables States to see what types of errors occurred with individual case records. The Detail Report is organized by county so that the records may be sent to the submitting county for correction. It is important that your State’s data are accurate and complete, since this data will be used in research, reported to Congress, and may serve as the basis for programmatic decisions on child care.
For more information about the data quality and file format standards used by CCBIS for ACF-801 case-level data, see Technical Bulletins #3r-v2 and #4r on the CCB website (www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ccb/report/formhelp/techbull/index.htm).