Data from the National Survey of America's Families demonstrates differences in service access for children in kinship care. Researchers analyzed receipt of TANF child-only payments, foster care payments, health insurance, food stamps, housing assistance, and child care. The dataset was authored by Jennifer Ehrle and is hosted on paperswithcode.
Use Cases
- Compare government assistance rates based on child welfare agency involvement mentioned in the description
- Analyze the relationship between kinship care type and access to specific services like TANF or food stamps
- Model factors influencing service receipt among low-income children in kinship families
Strengths
- Analysis includes specific, quantified findings, such as 73% of low-income children in agency-involved kinship care receiving government assistance.
- Data is sourced from a national-level survey, the National Survey of America's Families.
- Description mentions analysis of multiple service types: TANF, foster care payments, health insurance, food stamps, housing, and child care.
Limitations
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
- Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
Provenance
- Source
- National Survey of America's Families
- Collection Method
- Survey data analysis
- Geography
- United States