Upstate New York

New York State

1998

38.4 per 1,000 families

n/a

22.5 per 1,000 families

2002

26.2 per 1,000 children

9.3 per 1,000 children

9.2 per 1,000 children

2003

22.1 per 1,000 children

9.1 per 1,000 children

9.5 per 1,000 children

There has been a change in how Touchstones Kids Count measures the rate of child abuse. The data above from the 1998 uses “per 1,000 families” as the denominator.  In 2002, Touchstones and their web site (nyskwic) began reporting only the percentage of indicated calls.  The 2002 and 2003 data here and in Graph HS-6 on the next page uses the number of calls “per 1,000 children ages 0-17 years.”