Family Support Order Active Dependents and Collections 2008-2017

10 years of fiscal year-end data from Alberta's Family Support Order Services tracks active dependents and maintenance payments. The dataset provides counts of Maintenance Enforcement Program and Child Recalculation Program files, beneficiaries, and total dollars collected for recipients. It covers the period from 2008 to 2017.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the total amount of dollars collected per fiscal year to assess program financial performance.
• Compare the number of dependants who benefit from MEP against the number of MEP files to evaluate case complexity.
• Model the relationship between Maintenance Enforcement Program files and Child Recalculation Program files over the 10-year period.
• Track annual changes in the number of dependants who benefit from MEP to identify shifts in program demand.

Strengths

• 10-year temporal coverage from 2008 to 2017 provides a longitudinal view.
• Data originates from the authoritative Government of Alberta.
• Includes three distinct quantitative metrics: file counts, beneficiary counts, and financial collections.

Limitations

• The dataset lacks granular row-level data, presenting only aggregated annual figures.
• No column definitions or sample data are available to verify data structure.
• Data is temporally stale, with the latest year covered being 2017.

Provenance

Source

Government of Alberta

Collection Method

Administrative year-end reporting from the Maintenance Enforcement Program and Child Recalculation Program.

Time Range

2008 to 2017

Freshness

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Geography

Alberta, Canada