In August 2019, The Baltimore Sun received a response to a public records request for a database of child support cases in the public child support system (also known as IV-D cases) across Maryland during the 2018 federal fiscal year (which ran from October 1, 2017 to September 30, 2018). The data was provided by the Maryland Department of Human Services in response to a public records request.
The Sun's findings and analysis are available in the "analysis" markdown file in this repository: analysis.md. The pre-processing code is in cleaning.Rmd.
If you'd like to run the code yourself in R, you can download the R Markdown files cleaning.Rmd and analysis.Rmd along with the data in the input folder.
The raw datasets are saved in the input folder. The cleaned caseload data is in the output folder under caseload.rds and baci_caseload.rds.
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All code in this repository is available under the MIT License. The data files are available under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license.