School-level Data on COVID-19 Cases, Quarantines, and Student Absenteeism During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Missingness.

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• Alternative Title:
  American Journal of Epidemiology, 2025, v. 194, no. 8: School-level Data on COVID-19 Cases, Quarantines, and Student Absenteeism During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Understanding Missingness.
• Journal Article:
  American Journal of Epidemiology
• Personal Author:
  Pampati, Sanjana ; Timpe, Zach ; Rasberry, Catherine ; Waller, Lance A. ; Lopman, Benjamin ; Stuart, Elizabeth A. ; Guest, Jodie L. ; Barrios, Lisa C. ; Jones, Jeb
• Description:
  Availability of school-based infectious disease surveillance data (eg, COVID-19 cases, student absences) based on experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic were studied using a national sample of public kindergarten through 12th grade schools (n = 1602). Based on surveys administered to school administrators throughout the 2021-2022 school year, we found high levels of missingness data for school-level COVID-19 cases, quarantines, and student absenteeism, increasing missingness over time, and variations in missingness by school characteristics (eg, school size) and protocols (eg, having a school-based system to report at-home COVID-19 tests). For the same sample of schools, using data requests to health departments, we found similarly high levels of missingness of school-level COVID-19 case data and varying approaches in data collection. Developing nationally standardized case definitions-and systems to surveil or collect and monitor school-based infectious disease outcomes early in a public health emergency-may be helpful in producing actionable data.
• Content Notes:
  Author manuscript
• Subjects:
  • Humans
  • COVID-19
  • Absenteeism
  • Schools
  • Child
  • Quarantine
  • Students
  • Adolescent
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • Child, Preschool
  More +
• Keywords:
  • COVID-19
  • schools
  • surveillance
  • infectious disease
• Source:
  American Journal of Epidemiology, 2025, v. 194, no. 8
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.1093/aje/kwae393
• ISSN:
  0002-9262 ; 1476-6256
• Pubmed ID:
  39380142
• Pubmed Central ID:
  PMC12683561
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  CC999999/ImCDC/Intramural CDC HHSUnited States/
• Genre:
  Journal Article
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• Pages in Document:
  2342-2356 (30 pdf pages)
• Volume:
  194
• Issue:
  8
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/261990/cdc_261990_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 489.28 KB]
• Collection(s):
  CDC Public Access
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:5533b4165011b44b3d823e6ed61027c16b243cb1c5d54552be2e28459c65e50aa56458f36e84239ea57bd45c087f8f640b705b161f319bf7e621a639f5ccc9b1