Substantiation Rates for a given year are computed by dividing the unduplicated count of children with a substantiated child maltreatment allegation by the child population and then multiplying by 1,000.
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Masking is performed to protect the privacy of individuals served by CDSS: Values of 10 or less and calculations based on values of 10 or less are masked ('M' or '*'). In stratified views of the data, additional values (the lowest available) are masked to prevent calculation of values of 10 or less.