Definition: Estimated percentage of adults with caregiving responsibilities for children ages 0-17 who were and were not accessing one or more social safety net resources at the time of questionnaire and at any time during the COVID-19 pandemic (from early March 2020 to the time of questionnaire), by timing of use and caregiver's race/ethnicity (e.g., in Wave 4, 17.2% of Hispanic/Latino caregivers in California were no longer using safety net resources after using them earlier in the pandemic).
Data Source: Family Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic. (Jun. 2022). 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: Jul. 8 – Jul. 27, 2021 (Wave 3); Jun. 3 – Jun. 29, 2022 (Wave 4). These data are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. The notation S refers to estimates that have been suppressed because the margin of error is 10 percentage points or greater. The annotation [!] indicates that the estimate’s margin of error is at least 5 percentage points but less than 10 percentage points.
