New York, California, and Florida child support court proceedings observed over four years. The dataset comprises field notes from over 1,000 distinct cases observed by researcher Lynne Haney between 2015 and 2019. It catalogs case details by state and county, including case type, parent demographics, and summaries of hearings.
Use Cases
- Analyzing patterns in child support adjudication based on ethnographic court observations
- Studying the relationship between criminal justice and child support systems based on the project's focus
- Examining demographic factors in court proceedings based on recorded race/ethnicity of parents
- Mapping the geographic distribution of cases based on cataloging by state and county
Strengths
- Over 1,000 distinct child support cases observed
- Data collected over a four-year period of ethnographic observation
- Cases cataloged by state and county for geographic analysis
- All data have been de-identified per court agreements
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the three selected states
Provenance
- Source
- Lynne Haney via QDR Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- Ethnographic observation in child support courts
- Time Range
- 2015-2019
- Freshness
- Last updated 2025-10-20 19:58:41; freshness should be verified
- Geography
- New York, California, Florida