Welcome to the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) website

A resource since 1988, the National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (NDACAN) promotes scholarly exchange among researchers in the child maltreatment field. NDACAN acquires data from leading researchers and national data collection efforts and makes these datasets available to the research community for secondary analysis. NDACAN supports information-sharing through its Child Maltreatment Research List Serve and its Updata e-newsletter and provides data analysis opportunities to researchers through conference workshops and its annual Summer Research Institute. Join our mailing list to receive the free Updata e-newsletter and other NDACAN announcements.

Researchers looking for child abuse statistics should read the NDACAN Frequently Asked Questions.

• SRI Application Deadline is March 1, 2025
• Announcement and Call for Applications
• Application PDF Form and Instructions

• Information and Presenters
• Schedule (Eastern Time):
  "LeaRN With NDACAN" course from 11AM - 11:30AM
  Open Support from 11:30AM - 12PM
  
• September 20: Introduction to R
• October 18: "Tidyverse" Functions
• November 15: Basic Data Management
• January 17: Linking Multiple Years
• February 21: Descriptive Statistics
• March 21: Data Visualization
• April 18: Introduction to Regression
• May 16: Introduction to Advanced Modeling
• Special Office Hours "LeaRn With NDACAN" Registration Link