Table 4:

Parental Responses to Survey Questions on Fathers’ Criminal History, and Corresponding CCH Records N=333 Families

Survey Reports of Incarceration	N	Percent	CCH Records
Incarceration indicated
Both parents report father incarceration	6	2%	5 with incarceration records
			1 without incarceration record
Mother says father incarcerated, Father says never incarcerated	18	5%	4 with incarceration records
			14 without incarceration records
Mother says father incarcerated, Father report missing	16	5%	8 with incarceration records
			8 without incarceration record
Father reports incarceration, Mother says Father never incarcerated	3	<1%	2 with incarceration records
			1 without incarceration record
Father reports incarceration, Mother report missing	1	<1%	1 with incarceration record
No incarceration indicated
Both parents say Father never incarcerated	185	56%	5 with incarceration records
			180 without incarceration record
Mother says father never incarcerated, Father report missing	45	14%	1 with incarceration record
			44 without incarceration record
Father says never incarcerated, Mother report missing	18	5%	1 with incarceration record
			17 without incarceration record
Incarceration status unknown
Both parents’ reports missing	41	12%	3 with incarceration records
			38 with no incarceration records

Source: FFCWS Y1 Interviews, CCH data

Note: Fathers not in CCH data extract are referred to as “without incarceration record”, as are fathers with CCH records, but no incarceration sentences before Y1.

Cases where CCH data supports survey responses are indicated in bold.