Preparing and Linking Administrative Data: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned from the Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages Project
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Preparing and Linking Administrative Data: Promising Practices and Lessons Learned from the Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages Project

OPRE Brief: 2022-108
Published: Apr 29, 2022
Publisher: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
Human Services Family Support Child Welfare State and Local

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Child Maltreatment Incidence Data Linkages (CMI Data Linkages)

Time frame: 2017–2022

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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation

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Tara Strelevitz

Claire Smither Wulsin

This brief highlights promising practices for preparing and linking data and discusses lessons learned related to (1) processing and cleaning data, (2) completing linkages, and (3) collaborating with partners to execute linkages.

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