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Latest Trends in Child Indicators Research and Resources

Stay informed on the newest developments in child indicators research and data resources worldwide. Explore updates on American Community Survey, National Survey of Children’s Health, and other valuable sources. Discover online tools for education data analysis, child well-being indices, and state-level child welfare statistics. Access recent policy developments, birth data, immigrant children statistics, and mental health indicators for youth. Keep up-to-date with international research publications and resources on children's well-being.

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Latest Trends in Child Indicators Research and Resources

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  1. New Developments and Resources in the Indicators World Sharon Vandivere April 7, 2009

  2. New Developments • American Community Survey: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/index.html • 1-year estimates available for 2007 • 3-year estimates available for 2005-07 • National Survey of Children’s Health: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/slaits/nsch07.htmhttp://www.nschdata.org • New data to be released in May • Third wave to be conducted in 2011

  3. New Developments • NCES online Datalab: http://nces.ed.gov/datalab/ • Online tabulation and analysis of education data • YRBS Online data analysis: http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/yrbss/ • 2007 data recently added • USA Counties: http://censtats.census.gov/usa/usa.shtml • Recently expanded; federal data on > 3000 counties

  4. New Developments • Indices of CWB • Foundation for Child Development / Kenneth Land http://www.fcd-us.org/initiatives/initiatives_show.htm?doc_id=463963 • KIDS COUNT http://datacenter.kidscount.org/Data/AcrossStates/Rankings.aspx?ind=137 • Child Trends (work published in Child Indicators Research, Social Indicators Research)

  5. New Developments • New policy developments from ED on measuring high school dropout rates www.all4ed.org/files/ESC_FedPolicyGRA.pdf • for individual state profiles: www.all4ed.org/publication_material/federal_grp • New data on births, including those to teens: www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr57/nvsr57_12.pdf • State report cards on child homelessness: www.familyhomelessness.org

  6. New Developments • New data on immigrant children: www.prb.org/pdf09/immigrantchildren.pdf • Community-level report cards on health status (including some child indicators): www.communityhealth.hhs.gov/HomePage.aspx • For mental health and substance abuse data on youth (including state-level data): www.oas.samhsa.gov/nsduh.htm

  7. New Developments • The Child Indicator Newsletterhttp://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends-2008_11_08_CI_Fall2008.pdf • International Society for Child Indicators and its journal: Child Indicator Researchhttp://www.childindicators.org/ • Indicators of Children's Well-Being: Theory and Practice in a Multi-Cultural Perspective, 2009. Ben-Arieh & Frones, (Eds.) http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/quality+of+life+research/book/978-1-4020-9303-6

  8. Research in the Service of America’s Children www.childtrends.org www.childtrendsdatabank.org

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