New Developments and Resources in the Indicators World

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New Developments and Resources in the Indicators
World

• Sharon Vandivere
• April 7, 2009

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New Developments

• American Community Survey http//www.census.gov/a
  cs/www/index.html
• 1-year estimates available for 2007
• 3-year estimates available for 2005-07
• National Survey of Childrens Health
  http//www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/slaits/nsch07.
  htm
  http//www.nschdata.org
• New data to be released in May
• Third wave to be conducted in 2011

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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.go
  v/yrbss/
• 2007 data recently added
• USA Counties http//censtats.census.gov/usa/usa.s
  html
• Recently expanded federal data on gt 3000 counties

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New Developments

• Indices of CWB
• Foundation for Child Development / Kenneth Land
  http//www.fcd-us.org/initiatives/initiatives_show
  .htm?doc_id463963
• KIDS COUNT http//datacenter.kidscount.org/Data/Ac
  rossStates/Rankings.aspx?ind137
• Child Trends
• (work published in Child Indicators Research,
  Social Indicators Research)

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New Developments

• New policy developments from ED on measuring high
  school dropout rates www.all4ed.org/files/ESC_FedP
  olicyGRA.pdf
• for individual state profiles www.all4ed.org/publ
  ication_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

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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

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New Developments

• The Child Indicator Newsletter http//www.childtre
  nds.org/Files//Child_Trends-2008_11_08_CI_Fall2008
  .pdf
• International Society for Child Indicators and
  its journal Child Indicator Research
  http//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
  /socialsciences/qualityofliferesearch/book/978
  -1-4020-9303-6

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Research in the Service of Americas Children
www.childtrends.org www.childtrendsdatabank.org