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The Center for Supporting Research on Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Implementation supports the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in learning from The Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Implementation Research and Evaluation Grants program...

The Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages (CMI Data Linkages) project will support ACF in identifying and enhancing existing administrative data linkage practices related to examining the incidence and risk of child maltreatment. Through the design and execution of a multi-site feasibility study, the CMI Data Linkages project will explore how enhancing and scaling innovative data linkage practices can improve our understanding of child maltreatment incidence and related risk and protective factors.

The Commission on Evidence-Based Policymaking (CEP) was established by the bipartisan Evidence-Based Policymaking Commission Act of 2016, jointly sponsored by Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), and signed by President Barack Obama on March 30, 2016. The Act recognizes that better use of existing data may improve how government programs operate. The mission of the Commission is to develop a strategy for increasing the availability and use of data in order to build evidence about government programs, while protecting privacy and confidentiality. Through the course of the Commission’s work...

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The Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) within the Administration of Children and Families (ACF) funds numerous data collection efforts through research studies on a wide-range...

This project will develop products intended to expand the use of administrative data in analyzing long-term outcomes of federal social program interventions.

Responsibilities of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, include coordinating the Department’s research and evaluation activities, carrying out its own research activities, and developing policy analyses. Listed below are ASPE reports that either use linked administrative data for research...

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The purpose of this project is to develop recommendations and strategies that ACF can pursue to increase data accessibility...

The National Academy of Sciences, through the Committee on National Statistics and other committees, has produced a number of reports addressing issues related to linked federal administrative data used for research, with topics including data linking, privacy protection, and the development of longitudinal panel data to study long-term policy effects. Recent reports are listed below...

The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has encouraged the development and use of administrative data for research purposes to inform a wide range of social policies. Below we list OMB memoranda that have provided guidance to federal agencies in these areas...

OPRE has overseen the production of numerous reports that demonstrate and discuss the use of administrative data for research to support social services overseen by ACF. The work ranges across a variety of substantive areas and data systems, and includes a strong focus on the development...

This project builds on the earlier OPRE Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Human Services (RED) project. RED helped build a base of knowledge to inform the Administration for Children and Families (ACF)’s identification and understanding of ethnic and racial differences across the service delivery system... 

This project is a partnership between the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) and the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE). It is funded by the Patient Centered Outcomes Trust Fund. A contract to support this work will be awarded in September 2019.

HHS will work with two to four states to...