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Home > Research Areas > Indicators of Child Well-being
INDICATORS OF
CHILD WELL-BEING
Developing, using, and sharing child well-being indicators is the backbone of Child Trends’ work.
We examine the full spectrum of child well-being, including health, socio-emotional development, education, and civic engagement, as well as the settings of children's lives.
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, Data Briefs, Fact Sheets, and Chartbooks.
Child Trends is pleased to join the Annie E. Casey Foundation as a 2010 KIDS COUNT Data Book Outreach Partner. The annual Data Book is a comprehensive resource on the status of U.S. children, featuring state-specific data on ten key indicators of child well-being. Visit the online Data Center to download the report and create maps, graphs, and charts at the national, state, and local level. |
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Research Briefs
The School Environment and Adolescent Well-Being: Beyond Academics
Pilar Marin; Brett Brown
November 2008
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Executive Summaries & Full Reports
What Gets Measured Gets Done: High Priority Opportunities to Improve Our Nation’s Capacity to Monitor Child and Youth Well-Being
Brett Brown; Kristin Anderson Moore
Child Trends
January 2009
A Guide to Resources for Creating, Locating, and Using Child and Youth Indicator Data
Brett Brown; Kyleen Hashim; Pilar Marin
Child Trends and KIDS COUNT
November 2008
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Speeches, Presentations & Briefings
Developing Data to Portray the Whole Child in Context
Laura Lippman
American Statistical Association/Joint Statistical Meetings
Vancouver, CA
August 2, 2010
Methods for Creating Indices of Child Well-being: Examples from the National Survey of America’s Families
Sharon Vandivere; Kristin Anderson Moore; Laura Lippman; Cameron McPhee
International Society for Child Indicators
Chicago, IL
June 27, 2007
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Fact Sheets
Neighborhood Support Index
Brett Wilkenfeld; Kristin Anderson Moore; Laura Lippman
September 2007
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Other Publications
Positive Indicators of Child Well-being: A Conceptual Framework, Measures and Methodological Issues
Laura Lippman - Kristin Anderson Moore - Hugh McIntosh. October 2009. Innocenti Working Paper No. 2009-21. Florence, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre.
Based upon a review of frameworks for positive indicator development for the well-being of children, this paper suggests a new comprehensive framework which identifies constructs for positive well-being as well as potential indicators and extant measures that fit with those constructs. The paper reviews existing data sources for examples of positive measures that are found in the proposed framework as well as research studies that have been successful in measuring these indicators. Read more...
Methods for Tabulating Indices of Child Well-Being and Context: An Illustration and Comparison of Performance in 13 American States
S. Vandivere - C. McPhee. Child Indicators Research, Volume 1, Number 3. September 2008.
Key Indicators of Child and Youth Well-Being: Completing the Picture
B. Brown (Ed.). New York: Taylor & Francis Group, LLC (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates). 2008.
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