Table 1.

Association between economic indicators and maltreatment incidence

	Investigated CPS reports		Substantiated CPS reports
Current unemployment rate	1.99 % (95 % CI 1.10–2.88 %)	p < 0.001	2.42 % (95 % CI 0.59–4.29 %)	p = 0.009
Current foreclosure rate	3.94 % (95 % CI 0.22–7.79 %)	p = 0.038	4.49 % (95 % CI 1.14–7.94 %)	p = 0.008
Lagged (1-year) unemployment rate	1.04 % (95 % CI −0.27–2.37 %)	p = 0.120	0.91 % (95 % CI −1.78–3.67 %)	p = 0.512
Lagged (1-year) foreclosure rate	6.34 % (95 % CI 2.25–10.59 %)	p = 0.002	7.30 % (95 % CI 1.89–13.00 %)	p = 0.008

Estimates from fixed-effects Poisson regression of counts of child maltreatment reports and substantiations on current and prior-year unemployment and foreclosure rates are presented, representing change in investigated CPS reports/substantiated CPS reports given 1 percentage-point increase in respective economic indicator and adjusted for temporal trend