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New Developments and Resources in the Indicators World

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

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New Developments and Resources in the Indicators World

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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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