Definition: Estimated percentage of adults with caregiving responsibilities for children ages 0-17 who had and had not accessed one or more social safety net resources before and after the COVID-19 outbreak in March 2020, by timing of use and caregiver's race/ethnicity (e.g., in Wave 2, 8.6% of Hispanic/Latino caregivers in California had started using social safety net resources during the pandemic after not using them before the pandemic).
Data Source: Family Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic. (Apr. 2021). Questionnaire: American Academy of Pediatrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevent Child Abuse America & Tufts Medical Center; California oversample: Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health & California Essentials for Childhood Initiative (California Dept. of Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch & California Dept. of Social Services, Office of Child Abuse Prevention).
Footnote: This indicator reports on eight social safety net resources: (1) food banks, (2) free or reduced price school meals, (3) Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), (4) public health insurance (such as coverage through the Affordable Care Act, Medi-Cal, etc.), (5) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (CalFresh), (6) Supplemental Security Income (SSI), (7) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (CalWORKs), (8) Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program. African American/black, Asian, Hispanic/Latino, and white categories are mutually exclusive. The questionnaire was administered during the following periods: Nov. 9 – Dec. 11, 2020 (Wave 1); Mar. 22 – Apr. 12, 2021 (Wave 2). These data are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. The annotation [!] indicates that the estimate’s margin of error is at least 5 percentage points but less than 10 percentage points.
