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Longitudinal Indicators of the Social Context of Families: Beyond the Snapshot
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Moore, Kristin Anderson; Vandivere, Sharon – Social Indicators Research, 2007
Longitudinal indicators are measures of an individual or family behavior, interaction, attitude, or value that are assessed consistently or comparably across multiple points in time and cumulated over time. Examples include the percentage of time a family lived in poverty or the proportion of childhood a person lived in a single-parent family.…
Descriptors: Well Being, Social Environment, Family Environment, Longitudinal Studies
Teen Births: Examining the Recent Increase. Research Brief. Publication #2009-08
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Moore, Kristin Anderson – Child Trends, 2009
After a 14-year decline, the teen birth rate increased in 2006, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Between 2005 and 2006, the teen birth rate rose 3.5 percent, from 40.5 to 41.9 births per 1,000 females aged 15-19. The number of teen births rose by 20,843, from 414,593 to 435,436 births, the largest annual increase…
Descriptors: Prevention, Birth Rate, Pregnancy, Social Indicators
An Index of the Condition of Children: The Ideal and a Less-than-Ideal U.S. Example
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Moore, Kristin Anderson; Vandivere, Sharon; Lippman, Laura; McPhee, Cameron; Bloch, Margot – Social Indicators Research, 2007
This paper uses recent data on U.S. children from the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) to create indices that tally the number of problems or risks that individual children experience. We compare results with those from indices developed elsewhere that assess the change across sets of population-level indicators. While the two types of…
Descriptors: Well Being, Child Welfare, Children, Trend Analysis
The Uses (and Misuses) of Social Indicators: Implications for Public Policy. Child Trends Research Brief.
Moore, Kristin Anderson; Brown, Brett V.; Scarupa, Harriet J. – 2003
Despite the widespread use and acceptance of indicators in so many fields, this research method tends to be underutilized in the broader social policy arena. One reason may be the haziness that exists about how social indicators differ from other types of research in the social sciences. In addition policy makers may have little or no knowledge of…
Descriptors: Children, Public Policy, Research Methodology, Research Problems
Results and Indicators for Children: An Analysis to Inform Discussions about Promise Neighborhoods
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Moore, Kristin Anderson; Murphey, David; Emig, Carol; Hamilton, Kathleen; Hadley, Alena; Sidorowicz, Katie – Child Trends, 2009
President Obama has proposed creation of up to 20 "Promise Neighborhoods" in communities experiencing poverty, crime, and low student achievement. Promise Neighborhoods would engage children and parents within a defined geographic area in a multifaceted strategy to meet several goals: good physical and mental health for every child, enrollment in…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Poverty, Crime, At Risk Persons
How Children Are Doing: The Mismatch between Public Perception and Statistical Reality. Child Trends Research Brief.
Guzman, Lina; Lippman, Laura; Moore, Kristin Anderson; O'Hare, William – 2003
Given the increase in statistical information on the well-being of America's children during the past decade, Child Trends sought to find out how well public perception matches official statistics on the characteristics and well being of America's children. Three public opinion polls were designed to ascertain the public's understanding of the…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Children, Demography, Knowledge Level