Technical reports - POCLS
List of technical reports released by the POCLS team
Showing 1 - 10 of 26 items
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NSW Department of Communities and Justice. (2022). Study objectives and strategic research agenda (Report No.1: 2022-2023)
This report provides the business case for the investment in building the data asset to inform interventions aimed at keeping children safe and reaching their full potential. A full list of research and knowledge translation [...]
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Taylor, A., & Cashmore, J. (2022). The Adapted Kvebaek Family Sculpture Technique and Closeness Measures: Data User Guide (Report No.11)
This report describes the study activity examining children’s relationships with people in their caring household, and children’s relationships with birth family and other people they were not living with. The report also describes approaches to [...]
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Steel, D. and Navin Cristina, T. (2020). Weighting for the Pathways of Care Longitudinal Study Update for Wave 4 (Report No. 19)
Previous reports by Steel and Navin Cristina (2018, 2019) describe the development of weights designed to reduce potential biases due to non-response and attrition in the POCLS Waves 1-3. This report provides an update for [...]
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NSW Department of Communities and Justice. (2020). Measures Manual (Waves 1-4). (Report No. 8)
This report describes the standardised measures in the study including a summary, measure domain, waves administered; age range, number of items, publisher information, psychometric properties, scoring information and references.
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NSW Department of Communities and Justice. (2020). Examining Differences between Care and Protection Order Status: Final and No Final Orders Cohorts. (Report No. 18)
This paper describes the POCLS two main cohorts of children - those in the ‘Final Orders’ and ‘No Final Orders’ cohorts - and changing legal status overtime to assist analysts interpret the longitudinal data. The [...]
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NSW Department of Communities and Justice. (2020). Guidelines for accessing the data and publication (Report No. 14)
This report provides an overview of the POCLS data asset, how to apply to access the data, the requirements for use and publication.
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NSW Department of Communities and Justice. (2020). Guidelines for using the record linkage data (Report No. 15)
This report provides an overview of the record linkage datasets available, the process to gain approval to access the data, the requirements for use and reporting.
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NSW Department of Communities and Justice. (2020). Identifying the cultural background of children in the POCLS (Report No. 12)
Given the multiple data sources reporting child cultural background and the inconsistency over time a counting rule was established for consistent reporting of a child’s cultural background in the POCLS.
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NSW Department of Communities and Justice. (2020). Guidelines for publishing results with small sample sizes (Report No. 16)
The report provides guidelines to manage participant confidentiality and reduce the risk of disclosing identity in data outputs and results presented in all presentations and publications.
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NSW Department of Communities and Justice. (2020). POCLS Study Design and Data User Guide. (Report No.2)
An overview of the study including: design and methods, ethics, data sources, data structure, variable naming convention, data access, data confidentialisation and data weighting.