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    • Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS)

    Metadata Updated: March 26, 2025

    The Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) is a federally mandated data collection system intended to provide case specific information on all children covered by the protections of Title IV-B/E of the Social Security Act (Section 427). Under the Final 1993 AFCARS’ rule, states are required to collect and submit data on all children who are under the responsiblity of the title IV-B/IV-E agency for placement, care, or supervision.

    Units of Response: Children in Foster Care

    Type of Data: Administrative

    Tribal Data: Unavailable

    Periodicity: Semiannual

    Demographic Indicators: Disability;Geographic Areas;Sex

    SORN: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/12/14/2016-29366/adoption-and-foster-care-analysis-and-reporting-system

    Data Use Agreement: https://www.ndacan.acf.hhs.gov/datasets/order_forms/termsofuseagreement.pdf

    Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.ndacan.acf.hhs.gov/datasets/order_forms/termsofuseagreement.pdf

    Granularity: Individual

    Spatial: United States

    Geocoding: FIPS Code

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 30, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 26, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 30, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date March 26, 2025
    Publisher ACF
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://healthdata.gov/api/views/5ehc-uzh5
    Data First Published 2023-11-17
    Data Last Modified 2025-02-03
    Category ACF
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:70
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    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
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    Harvest Object Id c079069a-c2a9-48d2-9691-b347604185bc
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/data-research/adoption-fostercare
    Program Code 009:094
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 96cfb10a41b8c74ea8d1da73eed93148f72312d48e5658b41c861432b68716ca
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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