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INDICATORS OF
CHILD WELL-BEING
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Policy Makers & Businesses Need Reliable Information & Data: The Impact of Falling Response Rates to Social Surveys and What Can Be Done
Capitol Hill Briefing
Congressional Visitor's Center SVC 209-08
Friday, April 26 at 10 a.m.
This Congressional briefing will explore the challenges that legislators, advocates and the business community must face given falling response rates to social surveys. Event Flyer (.pdf)
Contact: Tamanna Mansury, (301) 656-0348. |
Developing, using, and sharing child well-being indicators is the backbone of Child Trends’ work.
Indicators often provide an essential component of community well-being assessments. Because they typically refer to population-wide measures, indicators are more inclusive than measures limited to individuals participating in a particular program or system. Thus, indicators can inform a number of comprehensive initiatives concerned with promoting positive, and preventing adverse, community-wide outcomes.
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On a dedicated Web site, the Child Trends DataBank, we examine and monitor over 100 indicators that focus on both risk and positive development. We consider the application of the indicators in research, policy, and practice. Other tools include The Child Indicator newsletter, Fact Sheets, and Chartbooks.
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The Annie E. Casey Foundation's 2012 KIDS COUNT Data Book shows both promising progress shows both promising progress and discouraging setbacks for the nation's children. A comprehensive resource on the status of U.S. children, the Data Book features state-specific data on key indicators of child well-being. Download the report and create maps, graphs, and charts at the national, state, and local level. | |
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The Child Indicator Newsletter - Winter 2013
- Measuring Subjective Well-Being
- Violent Crime Against Youth
- Census Data Mapper
- Downloading Bulk Census Data
- Counting Hispanics
- Online Response Option for ACS
- World Family Map
- Highlights from TIMSS, PIRLS
- Systems Science: A New Frame For Indicators
- Health System Measurement Project
- New Four-Year Cohort Graduation Rates, by State
Connecting the Dots: Challenges in Claiming Collective Impact
David Murphey
Community Indicators Consortium Impact Summit
College Park, Maryland
November 16, 2012
Alcohol Use
D. Murphey, B. Vaughn, M. Barry, M. Terzian
November 2012
This Adolescent Health Highlight summarizes key research findings about adolescent alcohol consumption; describes prevalence and trends; illustrates connections between behaviors and health outcomes; and discusses issues specific to particular adolescent populations.
Tobacco Use
D. Murphey, M. Barry, B. Vaughn, M. Terzian
November 2012
This Adolescent Health Highlight presents key research findings; describes prevalence and trends; illustrates connections between behaviors and health outcomes; and discusses issues specific to particular adolescent populations.
Grandparents Living with Children: State-Level Data From the American Community Survey
D. Murphey, M. Cooper, K. A. Moore
October 2012
This brief examines recent trends, national and for each state, associated with grandparents who live with grandchildren, based on data from the American Community Survey.
Children Living With and Cared For by Grandparents: State-Level Data From the American Community Survey
D. Murphey, M. Cooper, K. A. Moore
October 2012
This brief examines recent trends, national and for each state, related to children who reside in their grandparents’ household, based on data from the American Community Survey.
Children with Disabilities: State-Level Data From the American Community Survey
D. Murphey, M. Cooper, K. A. Moore
October 2012
Children with physical or mental disabilities are a very diverse group, and many face challenges. This fact sheet presents data for the U.S. and all states on the number and percentage of children (ages birth through 17) who were identified as having at least one disability by the responsible adult in the household responding to the American Community Survey.
The Child Indicator - Fall 2012
D. Murphey
Fall 2012
In this Issue:
Special Feature: Transition to Adulthood
--Long-term Trends in College
Work and Living Arrangements
--The Decline of Men?
--The School Experience:
Adequate Challenge?
--What Do Young Adults Need to
Succeed in the World of Work?
Reports Cited
Pathways to the Middle Class
On the Lighter Side . . . (or, “Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I’m . . .26?”)
Flourishing Youth
Briefly Noted
Child Trends’ Databank
About The Child Indicator
Assessing the Status and Needs of Children and Youth in the National Capital Region
D. Murphey, Z. Redd, S. Moodie, D. Knewstub, J. Humble, K. Bell, M. Cooper
September 2012
This report is a comprehensive, baseline assessment of the status of children and youth in the National Capital Region.
Washington Journal for Friday Live: Release of America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2012
Edward Sondik, National Center for Health Statistics, Director; Kristin Moore, Child Trends
The topic of this recording is the release on July 13, 2012 of “America’s Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2012.” The report was compiled by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, a working group of 22 Federal agencies that produce and use data on issues related to children and families. The conversation included key indicators of national well-being among America’s children, and the policy issues that affect it. Topics included teen birth rates; poverty level; parental employment; crime victimization; drug use and other issues.
The Child Trends DataBank: A Resource for Indicators of Child Well-Being
D. Murphey
Webinar for the Community Indicators Consortium
July 12, 2012
The Child Trends DataBank was introduced as a resource for indicators of child and family well-being.
The Effects of Geographical Variations in Cost of Living on Child Well-Being
N.C. Chien,
R.S. Mistry
Voices for America’s Children and the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count Joint Conference
Washington, DC
June 28, 2012
The Child Indicator Newsletter - Spring 2012
D. Murphey
- Future-gaze: Challenges to Collecting Social Science Data
- Visualizing Data: LED’s “On the Map”
- New Tools for Justice Statistics
- Updated Rankings of County-Level Health
- 2012 Grad Nation Index
- Mental Health, 2012
- Missing Links: Data to Information
- International Round-Up
The Child Indicator Newsletter - Winter 2012
David Murphey
- Falling Short: Targets and
Healthy People
- Vital Statistics: Updates Show
Both Progress and Persisting
Challenges
- Nations Report Card Shows
Slow Gains in Math and Reading
- New Data on Children with Special Health Care Needs
- Parsing “Poor”: The Measure
Matters
- Tips for Data Users
- Briefly Noted
Frequent Residential Mobility and Young Children’s Well-Being
D. Murphey, T. Bandy, K. A. Moore
February 2012
Child Trends examined a select group of children younger than six from the 2007 National Survey of Children's Health who have moved five or more times to understand demographic characteristics and see if they were more likely to have poor physical and/or mental health than similar children who did not experience frequent moves.
The More We Eat Together: State Data on Frequency of Family Meals
D. Murphey
January 2012
This fact sheet summarizes the latest state-by-state data on family meals, as reported by parents of children within three age-groups: birth to five years, six to 11 years, and 12 to 17 years.
2011
The Child Indicator Newsletter - Fall 2011
David Murphey
Fall 2011
In this issue:
*New Editions of Key National Reports, pp. 1-2
*“A Child’s Day” According to SIPP, p. 2
*Unintended Pregnancies. Three Reports Present New Data, p. 3
*“The Nation’s Report Card,” p. 4
*Data on U.S. Students’ Knowledge
in History, Geography, and Civics
Global Roundup, pp. 4-7
*In Brief. pp. 7-9
*About The Child Indicator, p. 10
Developing Federal Data to Portray the Whole Child in Context
Laura Lippman
International Society for Child
Indicators
University of York, England
July 28, 2011
Residential Mobility and Children’s Well-Being (Presentation)
David Murphey, Kristin A. Moore, Tawana Bandy
Presented to the International Society for Child Indicators Biannual Meeting
York, England
July 27-29, 2011
A presentation to examine the prevalence and frequency of residential moves among U.S. children and analyze the association of frequent moves with several measures of child well-being, controlling for other demographic variables.
Planning for Home Visiting: Results and Implications from a Recent Needs Assessment
David Murphey
Presented to the Best Beginnings “Celebrating the Whole Child” Conference
St. Croix, USVI
May 24, 2011
Child Trends provided technical assistance to the lead agency in the U.S. Virgin Islands in their preparation of an updated state plan for the Maternal, Infant, Early Childhood Home Visiting program grants, authorized under the federal Health Care Affordability Act. This assistance was summarized in a conference presentation at the University of the Virgin Islands.
Child Well-Being: An Index Based on Data of Individual Children
Kristin A. Moore, Kassim Mbwana, Christina Theokas, Laura Lippman, Margot Bloch, Sharon Vandivere, William O’Hare
May 2011
For this brief, we developed research-based indices of child well-being for four child outcome domains (physical, psychological, social, and cognitive/educational) from the 2003 National Survey of Children’s Health. For each of the four domains, we produced an index of negative development and an index of positive development. In addition, we created an overall positive index and an overall negative index.
The Child Indicator Newsletter - Spring 2011
The Spring 2011 newsletter features an interview with Asher Ben-Arieh, co-chair of the International Society for Child Indicators (ISCI), about the upcoming conference (July 27-29, in York, England), and some of the issues facing the field of child indicators. In addition, this issue highlights information from the latest volume of The Future of Children, with an emphasis on immigrant children; statistical portraits of Latinos and a recent report by the GAO on US and international models for developing a national system of key child indicators. This issue also identifies several new federal resources with child-related data:
- Child Welfare Outcomes Report Data
- Health Indicators Warehouse
- Elementary/Secondary Information System (ElSi)
- Safe & Supportive Schools Technical Assistance Center
- 2009 NAEP Transcript Study
- Atlas of Rural & Small-Town America
Children's Developmental Contexts: An Index Based on Data of Individual Children
K. A. Moore, K. Mbwana, C. Theokas, L. Lippman, M. Bloch, S. Vandivere, W. O’Hare
May 2011
For this brief, a indices of children’s contexts for three contextual domains (family, neighborhood, and socio-demographic) was developed from the 2003 National Survey of Children’s Health (NSCH). An index of negative and positive contextual well-being was developed for each of these domains. Additionally, an overall positive and negative contextual well-being index was created.
Developing Federal Data to Portray the Whole Child in Context
Laura Lippman
April 1, 2011
Presentation to the Population Association of America
Washington, DC
This presentation is a framework for generating indicators of child well-being across domains and contexts of children’s lives, including the domain of relationships with family, peers, school, community and media. It identifies where the federal statistical system is strong, and where it data need to be developed in order to portray the whole child in context.
Using Qualitative Research to Supplement Administrative Data Analysis
Nicole Forry
Society for Research Development Biennial Meeting
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
March 31, 2011
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