Data on children reentering foster care from kinship guardianship

Arno Parolini; Aron Shlonsky; Joseph Magruder; Andrea Lane Eastman; Fred Wulczyn; Daniel Webster

doi:10.1016/j.dib.2018.04.022

Data on children reentering foster care from kinship guardianship

Data Brief. 2018 Apr 12:18:1457-1461. doi: 10.1016/j.dib.2018.04.022. eCollection 2018 Jun.

Authors

Arno Parolini¹, Aron Shlonsky¹, Joseph Magruder², Andrea Lane Eastman³, Fred Wulczyn⁴, Daniel Webster²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Social Work, University of Melbourne, 161 Barry Street, Carlton, VIC 3053, Australia.
² California Child Welfare Indicators Project, School of Social Welfare, University of California at Berkeley, 120 Haviland Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-7400, USA.
³ Children's Data Network, School of Social Work, University of Southern California, 669W 34th Street, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
⁴ Chapin Hall Center for Children, University of Chicago, 1313 East 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

Abstract

This article describes a dataset containing information on children exiting to kinship guardianship in California between 2003 and 2010 (N = 18,831). Children and young people in the sample were followed for up to fourteen years. The data presented here show summary statistics of the sample included in the analysis. Furthermore, the data consist of life tables showing counts of children at risk of reentry, counts of children who reentered the foster care system as well as nonparametric estimates of the survival function and the cumulative hazard function for the period 2003-2017.