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

2. 2 New Developments American Community Survey: http://www.census.gov/acs/www/index.html 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/nsch 07.htm http://www.nschdata.org http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/major/slaits/nsch 07.htm http://www.nschdata.org –New data to be released in May –Third wave to be conducted in 2011

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

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

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

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

7. 7 New Developments The Child Indicator Newsletter http://www.childtrends.org/Files//Child_Trends- 2008_11_08_CI_Fall2008.pdf http://www.childtrends.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/ 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/social+sciences/quality +of+life+research/book/978-1-4020-9303-6 http://www.springer.com/social+sciences/quality +of+life+research/book/978-1-4020-9303-6

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