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Improving Data Mining of FFATA Awards Data Base

Improving Data Mining of FFATA Awards Data Base. Data on funding for prevention of child abuse through family services (PCA-TFS) Janet Rosenzweig, Harvard’s Kennedy School Bill Levis, Urban Institute. Purpose of Research.

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Improving Data Mining of FFATA Awards Data Base

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  1. Improving Data Mining of FFATA Awards Data Base Data on funding for prevention of child abuse through family services (PCA-TFS) Janet Rosenzweig, Harvard’s Kennedy School Bill Levis, Urban Institute

  2. Purpose of Research • Explore potential improvements in the classification by activity of data on grants made by federal agencies to all recipients in a specific state. • For Example….. • identify all funds coming into all states for activities related to the prevention of child abuse through family support services • identify all funds coming into a specific state, by location and category

  3. Focus of Research • Child Abuse Prevention through family support is a prime example of a public service area that crosses disciplinary boundaries. • Relevant funding is available from multiple federal agencies. • CFDA codes are the only categorical search.

  4. FFATA • WWW.USASpending.gov • Searchable database of grants, contracts and other types of federal contracts, assistance and other payments. • Purpose of grant is identified by CFDA code, which does not articulate what activities the recipient is conducting.

  5. Example: CFDA Codes relevant to family support services – manual search results HHS only • 93.551: Abandoned Infants • 93.995: Adolescent Family Life Demonstration Projects • 93.670: Child Abuse and Neglect Discretionary Activities • 93.643: Children's Justice Grants to States • 93.974: Family Planning Service Delivery Improvement Research Grants • 93.926: Healthy Start Initiative • 93.136: Injury Prevention and Control Research and State and Community Based Programs • 93.556: Promoting Safe and Stable Families

  6. Example, continued: Non HHS CFDA codes • 10.573: Homeless Children’s Nutrition Program AG • 84.335: Child Care Access Means Parents in School E D • 84.360: Dropout Prevention Programs ED • 84.310: Parental Assistance Centers ED • 16.730: Reduction and Prevention of Children's Exposure to Violence Justice • 16.523: Juvenile Accountability Incentive Block Grants • 16.547: Victims of Child Abuse Justice

  7. USASpending.gov • A great tool for searching by • Recipient • State • CFDA code • Generates HTML reports on screen • Generates downloadable ASCII files

  8. Sample Data Elements Recipient Name Recipient City Name Recipient County Name Recipient Zip Code Congressional District Agency Code CFDA Program Number CFDA Program Title

  9. Sample Screen Output

  10. What’s Missing? • A description of WHAT activities the recipient is conducting! • The addition of activity codes can make this database remarkably useful for state and planning and coordination.

  11. Multi-Disciplinary Planning • Case in point: Prevent Child Abuse – America has 39 state chapters who develop state-level prevention plans. The potential exists to identify entities with similar mission funded through various federal sources.

  12. An Opportunity • The continued development of this new website presents an opportunity to further the existing NGP objective of establishing uniform object expense categories and definitions for grant budgeting and reporting by addinguniform activity codes to federal CFDA program classification.

  13. For Background Information on NGP’s Uniform Guidelines Initiative • In November 2004, the Uniform Guidelines Coalition (co-sponsored by the NGP) released Uniform Data Elements and Definitions for Grant Budgeting and Financial Reporting, Version 1 (UDED) -- http://www.nasact.org/downloads/11_04-UDED_v1.pdf

  14. Next Steps for this project:…. • Using “Prevention of Child Abuse Through Family Support Services as an example of a multidisciplinary service area: • Develop a list of ‘activities’ relevant to the CFDA codes including: • An activity code and name • The related CFDA codes • A definition for the activity Using resources such as the Nonprofit Program Classification system of the Urban Institute/NCCS

  15. Possible Next Steps continued…. • provide the NGP, Harvard and the Urban Institute with a paper presenting the results • When finished, the NGP can consider sending the paper it to www.USASpending.gov and other stakeholders in improving data mining of federal awards.

  16. For More Information • Bill Levis, Urban Institute Qrlevis@aol.com • Janet Rosenzweig, Harvard’s Kennedy School Janet_Rosenzweig@ksg08.harvard.edu Thank you!

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