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

  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:

• Indicators of School Crime & Safety: 2009
Sexual Victimization in Juvenile Facilities
• Fourth National Incidence Study of Child Abuse and Neglect (NIS-4)
• State Indicator Report on Fruits and Vegetables, 2009: CDC Food Hardship
• Guttmacher Institute Report on U.S. Teen Pregnancies, Births, and Abortions
• Why Rural Matters, 2009: State and Regional Challenges
Obesity Prevalence Among Low-income, Preschool-aged Children
• 2007 NSCH Chartbook Now Available
• State of Latino Children and Youth in the U.S.: NCLR
• Recent Trends in Late Preterm births: NCHS Data Brief
• Basic Facts about Low-income Children, 2008: NCCP Report
• Pediatrics Special Supplement: NSCSHCN
• Kaiser Media Study
• Report to Congress: Vulnerable Children in Developing Countries
• Volunteering in the U.S. America’s Families and Living Arrangements
• A Child’s Day: 2006

• new data from the National Survey of Children's Health and Census Bureau
• recently released reports on racial/ethnic disparities in behavioral and learning disorders, young children in the criminal justice system, and high school graduation rates
• national survey of 15-year olds
• international child indicators, including the first reports on child well-being from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the African Child Policy Forum
• new editions of KIDS COUNT Data Book and America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being

• New reports on families' struggles and state and federal responses
• State and community-level indicators
• Issues for data users
• Racial/ethnic disparities in low birthweight
• Measures of qualitative well-being
• Targets in reducing child poverty
• Recently released reports

• U.S. Variations in Child Health System Perforamce: A State Scorecard
• ISCI Call for Papers
• Statement of Purpose
• New Reports Provice an Education Profile for American Indian and Alaska Native Students
• Just Released Reports
• USA Counties Online Update
• Youth Risk Behavior Survey
• New Online Source of Indicators from NCES

• OECD's "Measuring the Progress of Societies" Global Project
• An International Look at Reading: Where the United States Stands
• New Data and Tools Available for the National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs
• KIDS COUNT Data Center Features Data for the States and the 50 Largest U.S. Cities
• UNICEF Tool Provides Easy Access to International Child Data
• European Union Offers Comprehensive Online Data Tool
• South Africa: Children's Institute Tracks Indicators of Child Well-Being and More
• Recently Released Reports

• Chapin Hall report highlights the value of local data for programs and services.
• Mapping indicators with the Reproductive Atlas of Health.
• Updated Vital Stats, Right Start, and American Community Survey websites.
• Child Well-Being Index national and international reports.
• An introduction to the National Infrastructure for Community Statistics website.
• Recently released reports.

• LINKS: A database of programs intended to improve outcomes for children and youth
• National Survey of Children Health state-level research featured in Pediatrics
• A Window into the Community: Evaluating Quality of Life in Charlotte Neighborhoods
• An overview of the EU Index of Child Well-Being
• Two new data tools for juvenile statistics and data on diversity in metropolitan areas
• A call for proposals from the International Society of Quality-of-Life Studies
• Recently released reports

• Brookings Institution Report on Child Poverty in U.S. Cities
• NCHS Survey Measures Catalog of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
• New online data tools allow easy access to educational indicators
• Easy Access to Infant and Maternal Health Information from Peristats
• Report on Characteristics of Immigrant Families and their Implications for Social Policies
• Families' and Children's Experiences with Art and Culture
• New York State Effective and Promising Practices Webpage
• Recently released reports

• School Readiness Indicators: A Strategic Approach to Improving Outcomes for Young Children, by Catherine B. Walsh, Rhode Island KIDS COUNT
• A call for papers from the International Society for Child Indicators
• Future of Children special issue on childhood obesity
• The release of the first Children in North America Project report
• New small area health insurance estimates program will fill gap in health insurance data
• HRSA Geospatial Data Warehouse integrates data on health resources and health needs

• A new professional association - The International Society for Child Indicators.
• The release of the Health and Well-Being of Children: States and the Nation 2005 report.
• State Snapshots of Maternal and Child Health: 2004 Title V Information available online.
• KIDS COUNT State-Level Data Online system launched.
• Child Care and Early Education Research Connections Database provides information on early childhood education and child care.
• New Book: What Do Children Need to Flourish? Conceptualizing and Measuring Indicators of Positive Development

• Rockefeller bill: more funding for state surveys and child indicators.
• On the frontier of adulthood.
• New online data tools allow easy access to educational indicators.
• A focus on middle childhood and early adolescence.
• Measuring and monitoring children's well-being: a decade of international progress.
• Teaching in the classroom with child indicators.
• Recently released reports

• Getting performance-results data for school, school districts, and states.
• New NRC/IOM report focuses on nation's children's health data needs.
• New national reports.
• Youth risk behavior surveillance data online in easily accessible form.
• Census Public Use Microdata Series (PLUMS) and beyond 20/20 software enhance public access and analysis of 2000 Census data.
• New online data tool provides easy access to state data on children with special healthcare needs.
• Recently released reports

• Developing a set of key national indicators for the nation.
• Children and youth in emerging and transforming societies: International Childhood Conference 2005.
• New updates to neighborhood change database mean better access to 2000 Census data for communities throughout the country.
• Call for papers.
• Adapting to the new federal race definitions.
• Data2010, an easy way to access health indicators data.
• Measuring the family: status, transitions, and relationship health.
• Recently released reports.

• Oregon benchmarks.
• South Africa: social indicators in the service of social change.
• Vital statistics: new questions on birth and death certificates.
• Indicators of Positive Development conference.
• New student survey from Search Institute and America's Promise.
• Baltimore neighborhoods by the number.

• New resources from KIDS COUNT Online.
• Let's Invest in Families Today (LIFT) data tools.
• What cities can do to organize data online.
• Report cards from the Innocenti Research Center.
• Monitoring children in child welfare settings: the role of child well-being indicators.
• Recently released reports.

• The new California Health Interview Survey.
• New sources of children's health data.
• The delay in implementation of the the American Community Survey.
• The HHS ASPE Youth Indicators Technical Assistance Workshop for the states.
• Recently released reports and new Web resources.

• The impact of President Bush's No Child Left Behind Act on state education indicators.
• New additions to the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS) Web site.
• The launch of Child Trends' new sister Web site, www.childtrendsdatabank.org.
• Information on Philadelphia Safe and Sound's model reports for guiding child and youth policy.
• A profile of the International Social Survey Program (ISSP).
• The National Youth Summit session on positive youth development indicators

• The Census 2000 Supplementary Survey.
• A new data resource to examine changes that have occurred in neighborhoods over the last decade.
• A new survey that examines how youth ending their school years are prepared to meet challenges in today's society.
• Work to improve indicators on disabled children and youth.

• The national conference on child and youth indicators.
• How Florida uses indicator data in forming community alliances.
• A new report on the social health of the nation from the Fordham Institute.
• The Centers for Disease Control's national report on human exposure to environmental chemicals.
• A new compilation of international indicator data available on the Web.

• New publications, research, and survey data useful to anyone interested in tracking children's well-being.
• Where to get state-level data on smoking behaviors among youth.
• Where to see an innovative example of an interactive, online map-maker powered by a geographic information system (GIS).
• What positive psychology is, and how it's related to social indicators.
• How a collaborative effort succeeded in studying the civic knowledge and attitudes of 90,000 14-year-olds in 28 countries.

• State-level indicators of maternal, infant, and child health.
• Additional information contained in the Monitoring the Future Survey, such as students' educational goals, risk behaviors, health habits, and leisure time activity.
• The New York State Council on Children and Families training program in the use of social indicators.
• The Community Health Status indicator project

• National Goals Panel celebrates a decade of accomplishment.
• Community-level indicators projects: a new source book.
• The Center for Child Well-Being (CCW): focusing on a strengths-based paradigm for child health and development.
• Easy access to juvenile justice data.
• More Hispanic data available from the federal statistical agencies.

• The social health of the nation: do we need an annual checkup?
• Maine: child indicators in policy making partnership.
• Gauging a neighborhood's pulse: measures for community research from the Aspen Institute.
• Beyond survival: international researchers break new ground.
• Mapping data.
• Trends in the Well-Being of America's Children and Youth: 1999.

• KIDS COUNT comes of age.
• Social indicators and social programs: researcher forges new links.
• Mapping youth resources from a youth perspective.
• A positive look at today's youth.
• Healthy people moves into the new millennium.

• Census 2000 child well-being measures and data products.
• State-level child welfare data. School readiness and the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study of the Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999.
• Quality-of-life indicator data from the Knight Foundation for 26 cities.
• Data from the Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth, and Family Policy.

• Democratizing information with modern technology.
• States improving indicators with help from ASPE
• America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being