Substantiated Incidents of Abuse Experienced by Youth Ages 0-17 Years- St. Louis County
impact.stlouisco.com | Last Updated 30 Jan 2016This dataset includes annual counts and rates for incidents of substantiated abuse experienced in St. Louis County by youth ages 0-17 years as reported to the Missouri Department of Social Services, Children’s Division. Substantiated incidents abuse are those where there is a finding that a preponderance of evidence exists to conclude abuse/neglect has occurred or is occurring as a result of the observation of visible signs, physical and/or credible verbal evidence provided to the Children’s Service Worker by the child, perpetrator or witnesses in accordance with the definitions of abuse/neglect. Categories of abuse include physical, neglect, emotional, educational neglect and sexual abuse.
This dataset has the following 9 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|
| Year | year | calendar_date | 2010-01-01T00:00:00.000 2013-01-01T00:00:00.000 2012-01-01T00:00:00.000 2011-01-01T00:00:00.000 2014-01-01T00:00:00.000 view top 100 |
| Substantiated Cases | substantiated_cases | number | 347 360 343 365 view top 100 |
| Substantiated Children per 1000 | substantiated_children_per_1000 | number | 2.08 2.02 1.96 2.01 1.84 view top 100 |
| Physical% | physical | number | 41.5 40.06 34.3 41.4 38.4 view top 100 |
| Neglect% | neglect | number | 41.69 42.9 46.1 41.6 43.6 view top 100 |
| Emotional% | emotional | number | 3.5 5.5 3.1 2.33 2.2 view top 100 |
| Medical% | medical | number | 4.3 3.6 3.01 2.9 3.79 view top 100 |
| Educational% | educational | number | 0.27 1.9 1.2 0.6 1.75 view top 100 |
| Sexual% | sexual | number | 32.9 29.7 25.66 26.3 25.9 view top 100 |