Survey Data

This compendium is an effort to understand and document the data collected by ACF that is or could be used for evidence-building purposes. It includes summaries of twelve major ACF administrative data sources and seven surveys.

This is the Codebook for the Survey of Long-Term Care Awareness and Planning public use file, and Appendix B of the report "Data User's Guide for the Public Use File of the Survey of Long-Term Care Awareness and Planning". The Codebook contains every variable name, its label, and unweighted and weighted frequencies.

This is the full instrument for the Survey of Long-Term Care Awareness and Planning, and Appendix A of the report "Data User's Guide for the Public Use File of the Survey of Long-Term Care Awareness and Planning".

With the aging of the population, the demand and need for long-term care (LTC) is certain to grow, and with it public and private expenditures. Unlike medical care, where insurance is common, few people have private LTC insurance, and Medicare does not cover LTC. Many older adults pay for LTC out of their income and personal savings until they qualify for Medicaid.

Over the last decade, survey response rates have been steadily declining, and this decline has raised concerns across the federal government regarding the quality and utility of national survey data.

This brief provides new national estimates of recent early childhood expulsion rates in a range of center-based early learning settings using data from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE), indicating how characteristics of early care and education (ECE) centers relate to the likelihood that children are denied services due to behavior.  The analysis describes how access to c

This is a one page summary of a report published in May 2016. The summary presents key takeaway messages from the report which describes the characteristics and experiences of the approximately 2.3 million U.S.

This paper highlights the characteristics and experiences of the approximately 2.3 million U.S. children who live with neither biological nor adoptive parents, but instead live with relatives or non-relatives in foster care or less formal arrangements outside the foster care system.

Jess Wilhelm, MASocial & Scientific Systems, Inc. Natasha Bryant, MALeadingAge Janet P. Sutton, PhDSocial & Scientific Systems, Inc. Robyn Stone, ScDLeadingAge