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Technical Bulletin #22 — Reporting Population & Data Extraction

Metadata Updated: September 6, 2025

This technical bulletin addresses how to extract data for the Out-of-Home Care and Adoption and Guardianship Assistance Files defined in AFCARS Technical Bulletin #21. Additionally, this document includes guidance on extracting corrected files (previously referred to as subsequent files) after the required AFCARS reporting periods. This technical bulletin was last revised on June 10, 2024.

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Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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Metadata Created Date September 6, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 6, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from Healthdata.gov

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date September 6, 2025
Metadata Updated Date September 6, 2025
Publisher Administration for Children and Families
Maintainer
Identifier https://healthdata.gov/api/views/ghhi-8b9a
Data First Published 2025-09-04
Data Last Modified 2025-09-05
Category ACF
Public Access Level public
Bureau Code 009:70
Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id ae5bcbec-499d-4f53-87a2-1a3feac38038
Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/d/ghhi-8b9a
Program Code 009:045
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 140d93569dadef916424e888121ca840586b9e35d52ccaad7ba5c78fa80bb6c8
Source Schema Version 1.1

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