New Data Available in the KIDS COUNT Data Center

The KIDS COUNT Data Center, a project of The Annie E. Casey Foundation, has been updated to include new national, state and city data on household education levels and children in immigrant families. Topics include high school drop out rates, teen employment, English language skills and enrollment in college and early learning programs.

The data, which comes from the 2008 American Community Survey, finds that more children are living with better-educated parents. Between 2000 and 2008, the number of children living in U.S. households in which the head of household had a bachelor’s degree or higher increased by 4 percent. The data also suggests that the number of immigrant children living in linguistically isolated households dropped for the first time in 2008 to 9,758,000, representing 5 percent of immigrant children.

KIDS COUNT is a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children and families in the United States. The KIDS COUNT Data Center offers a variety of ways for news organizations and others to access data on hundreds of indicators of child well-being at the state, city and community level, and allows site visitors to create customized maps for articles or reports.

Also visit the site of the KIDS COUNT Data Book, released in July 2009, which features national and state profiles of children’s well-being.