CPS 2.3 Children In DFPS Legal Responsibility During the Fiscal Year by County and Region with Demographics FY2014-2023
data.texas.gov | Last Updated 13 Feb 2024Children in DFPS custody are those for whom a court has appointed DFPS legal responsibility through temporary or permanent managing conservatorship or other court ordered legal basis. This chart includes any child in DFPS custody at some point during the year. Children may be duplicated in the count, if they were in and out of DFPS custody more than once during the fiscal year. See CPS Glossary for legal status definitions. More information at www.dfps.state.tx.us.
This dataset has the following 7 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiscal Year | fiscal_year | text | 2019 2018 2020 2021 2017 view top 100 |
| County | county | text | Harris Dallas Tarrant Bexar Bell view top 100 |
| Region | region | text | 7-Austin 3-Arlington 4-Tyler 8-San Antonio 1-Lubbock view top 100 |
| Gender | gender | text | Male Female Unknown view top 100 |
| Race/Ethnicity | race_ethnicity | text | Anglo Hispanic African American Other Asian view top 100 |
| Age | age | text | 1 2 3 4 0 view top 100 |
| Count of Children in DFPS Custody | sum_child_in_dfps | number | 1 2 3 4 5 view top 100 |