This Kids Count report examines statewide trends in the well-being of Indiana's children. The statistical portrait is based on 6 general areas of children's well-being: (1) demographic change; (2) education; (3) economic independence; (4) healthy bodies; (5) humane environment; and (6) spirit and character. Nine key indicators of child well-being…

These 42 Washington Kids Count summaries, one for each of the state's counties and major metropolitan areas, examine trends in the well-being of Washington's children. The summaries each begin with a report on economic prosperity within the state and the county or region. The statistical portraits are based on indicators in three general areas of…

Profiling the lives of children around the world at the end of the 20th century, this report calls on the international community to undertake the urgent actions necessary to realize the rights of every child. Part 1 of the report summarizes the progress made over the last decade in meeting the goals established at the 1990 World Summit for…

This Kids Count fact book provides a statistical portrait of the well-being of children in Wilmington, Delaware, and it is designed to be used by policymakers, educators, youth development professionals, and neighborhoods in Wilmington to design and implement community youth development plans. Seventeen indicators are used to describe children's…

This document reports a study of the possibility of making indicators of demand and supply of high skilled labor based on the Labor Force Survey (LFS), a data source available in all European countries. Part 1 is a summary of a pilot study of three countries: United Kingdom (UK), Netherlands, and Norway. It concludes LFS is a limited data source…

This Kids Count data book examines trends in the well-being of Minnesota's children. The statistical portrait is based on 11 indicators of child well-being: (1) child poverty rate; (2) children receiving free or reduced-price school lunch; (3) children in families receiving food stamps; (4) births to teenage mothers; (5) low birth weight rates;…

This Kids Count data book examines statewide trends in the well-being of Indiana's children. The statistical portrait is based on indicators in six general areas: (1) child and family demographics; (2) economic well-being; (3) child health; (4) child safety; (5) education; (6) teen high risk behaviors; and (7) juvenile justice. The first part of…

This Kids Count data book examines statewide trends in the well-being of Indiana's children. The statistical portrait is based on indicators in ten general areas: (1) child and family demographics; (2) economic well-being; (3) poverty; (4) child safety; (5) education; (6) health and well-being; (7) mental health and additions; (8) mortality; (9)…

In compiling the regular statistics of student enrollment at the universities and colleges of the country the Bureau of Education has followed the natural practice of classifying the attendance according to the States in which the respective higher educational institutions are located. In view of the apparent need for a comprehensive study of the…

The statistical survey is intended to give a general summary of the statistics of enrollments in the various types of public and of private schools and other institutions reporting to the Bureau of Education for the school year 1921-22, the distribution of teachers, the cost, so far as practicable, of operating these schools, and a comparison of…

This report contains summaries by States, but no detailed statistics of individual schools. Such statistics were published in Bureau of Education Bulletin, 1918, No. 73, and only slight changes have occurred since that document was printed. Graphic and interpretative treatment of the data in this bulletin will appear in a bulletin to be published…

This Kids Count report details county and statewide trends in the well-being of Oklahoma's children. The statistical report is based on eight indicators of child well being: (1) economic distress; (2) percent low birthweight infants; (3) infant mortality rate; (4) births to teens; (5) child abuse and neglect rates; (6) child and teen death rate;…

This 1997 KIDS COUNT data book provides a national and state-by-state (including the District of Columbia) compilation of benchmarks of the educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of children in the United States. Ten indicators of children's well-being are taken from government sources: (1) percent of low birth-weight babies; (2)…

This KIDS COUNT statistical report is the third to present information on the status of children and youth in the District of Columbia. An Executive Summary presents the overall findings, while the bulk of the report presents trends in seven areas: (1) economic security; (2) family attachment and community support; (3) child day care; (4) homeless…

This report provides a statistical portrait of Kentucky children's well-being, by county and in the state overall. Part 1 of the report, "Young Families in Peril," profiles poverty in the state, noting that the vast majority of poor families are working, married-couple households; however, families with household heads younger than 30…