This data book presents findings of the Kids Count project on current conditions faced by Kentucky children age birth through 19. For each county, and for the state, comparisons are provided between the base years of 1980-1982 and the most recent years 1992-1994. Counties are ranked against each other and trend graphs are provided for the studied indicators for all 120 counties. Indicators on physical well-being include infant mortality, prenatal care, teen births, and births to unmarried women. The report shows improvement in the infant mortality rate and the percent of births with prenatal care. Trends in births to teens are shown to vary by county, with births to teens showing a decrease and births to unmarried women showing an increase. Indicators concerning child neglect are broken down into incidences of physical abuse, sexual abuse, neglect, and dependency. Education indicators consist of dropout, retention, and transition rates for each school district. The final set of indicators concerns poverty and consists of numbers of children in the assistance programs of Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Food Stamps, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), and Medicaid, as well as general employment statistics. These statistics suggest that poverty does have long term, far reaching effects on children. Studies have linked family poverty during childhood with greater risk for numerous problems including less effective parenting, lower intelligence as measured by IQ tests, homelessness, and exposure to crime. (SD)