Data Resources
KIDS COUNT Data Center
Provided by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, the KIDS COUNT Data Center provides access to hundreds of indicators of child well-being, including all those regularly used in our fact book. Users can access raw data or create profiles, maps, rankings and line graphs of data by state or spanning the U.S.. The Data Center is comprehensive and user friendly. Prominent on Data Center’s home page the user will find featured data items comparing rates for some indicators for all the states. The user can click the buttons at the right top of the graph to view the relative standing of the various states for different featured indicators. Any of the featured data items can be clicked on to receive additional information about them. The featured data is part of the national database, directly available to the user anytime while working with data from the Data Center’s home page. Go to the KIDS COUNT Data Center
Data Center Tutorials:
Data Across States (use to see how DE compares to other states)
Data By State (use to view DE or other single state data only)
Recently Released Data Products
Challenges and Opportunities Related to Implementation of Child Care Nutrition and Physical Activities Policies in Delaware, released May 24, 2010 by the Altarum Institute. The report can be found at: http://www.altarum.org/publications-resources-health-systems-research/CHOMP-Delware-Focus-Group-Report
Diplomas Count 2010: Graduation by the Numbers- Putting Data to Work for Student Success, released June 10, 2010 by Editorial Projects in Education. The report can be found at: http://www.edweek.org/ew/toc/2010/06/10/index.html
America After 3PM Special Report on Summer: Missed Opportunities, Unmet Demand, released May, 2010 by the Afterschool Alliance. The report can be found at: http://www.afterschoolalliance.org/documents/Special_Report_on_Summer_052510.pdf
Early Warning! Why Reading by the End of Third Grade Matters: A KIDS COUNT Special Report by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, released May 18, 2010. The report can be found at: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/reports/readingmatters.aspx
Feeding Opportunity: Ending Child Hunger Furthers the Goal of Cutting U.S. Poverty in Half Over the Next Decade, released May 24, 2010 by the Center for American Progress. The report can be found at: http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/05/pdf/feeding_opportunity.pdf
Welfare Reform and Intergenerational Mobility, released May 25, 2010 by the Pew Charitable Trusts' Economic Mobility Project. The report can be found at: http://economicmobility.org/assets/pdfs/EMP_TANF%2015.pdf
The Cost of Delay: State Dental Policies Fail One in Five Children, released February 23, 2010 by the Pew Children’s Dental Campaign. The report can be found at: www.pewcenteronthestates.org/costofdelay
Delaware’s Family Resource Simulator Tool updated for 2009 by The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) at Columbia University’s School of Public Health can be found at: www.nccp.org/tools/frs/
