CHILD POPULATION CHARACTERISTICS
PF 1. I - Number of children
PF 1.2 - Children as percent of the population
PF 1.3 - Proportion of families containing children
PF 1.4 - Race/ethnicity composition
PF 1.5 - Immigrant children
PF 2.1 - Family structure: number of parents in household
PF 2.2 - Percent of births to unmarried mothers
PF 2.3 - Foster care
PF 3.1 - Residential stability
PF 3.2 - Children in poor/very poor neighborhoods
ES 1.1 - Mean family income
ES 1.2 - Income distribution
ES 1.3 - Children in poverty
ES 1.4 - Sustained child poverty
ES 1.5 - Lifetime childhood poverty
ES 1.6 - Child support nonpayment
ES 2.1 - Impact of government transfer programs
ES 2.2 - Current receipt of AFDC or Food Stamps
ES 2.3 - Lifetime welfare dependence
ES 3.1 - Parental labor force participation
ES 3.2 - Maternal employment
ES 3.3 - Parental labor force detachment
ES 3.4 - Secure parental labor force attachment
ES 3.5 - Child care
ES 4.1 - Inadequate housing
HC 1.l.a -Infant mortality
HC 1.l.b - Child and youth mortality
HC 1.2.a - Teen violent deaths: motor vehicles
HC 1.2.b - Teen violent deaths: homicides
HC 1.2.c - Teen violent deaths: suicides
HC 2.1 - Healthy births
HC 2.2.a - Low birth weight
HC 2.2.b - Very low birth weight
HC 2.3 - General health conditions
HC 2.4 - Chronic health conditions
HC 2.5 - Overweight adolescents
HC 2.6 - Abuse and neglect
HC 2.7 - Suicidal teens
HC 3.1 - Health insurance coverage
HC 3.2.a - Early prenatal care
HC 3.2.b - Late or no prenatal care
HC 3.2.c - Inadequate prenatal care
HC 3.3 - Immunization
SD 1. 1 - Life goals
SD 1.2 - Positive peer influences
SD 1.3 - Religious attendance
SD 1.4 - Voter registration
SD 1.5 - Excessive TV viewing
SD 1.6 - Violent crime arrest rate
SD 1.7 - Low-risk teens
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: PHYSICAL HEALTH AND SAFETY
SD 2.1 - Fighting
SD 2.2 - Carrying weapons
SD 2.3 - Scat beat use
SD 2.4 - Regular physical exercise
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: SMOKING, ALCOHOL, AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE
SD 3.1 - Cigarette smoking
SD 3.2 - Smokeless tobacco use
SD 3.3 - Binge drinking
SD 3.4 - Drunk driving
SD 3.5 - Marijuana and cocaine use
SD 3.6 - Peer attitudes toward alcohol, marijuana, and other drugs
BEHAVIORAL HEALTH: SEXUAL ACTIVITY AND FERTILITY
SD 4.1 - Sexually experienced teens
SD 4.2 - Sexually active teens
SD 4.3 - Unprotected sex
SD 4.4 - Number of sex partners
SD 4.5 - Teen pregnancy
SD 4.6 - Teen abortion rate
SD 4.7 - Teen birth rate
SD 4.8 - Teen non-marital birth rate
SD 4.9 - Second and higher order births to teens
EA 1.1 - Pre-school enrollment
EA 1.2 - Grade retention
EA 1.3 - School absenteeism
EA 1.4 - Teen dropout
EA 1.5 - High school completion
EA 1.6 - Enrollment in higher education
EA 2.1 - Reading proficiency
EA 2.2 - Writing proficiency
EA 2.3 - Mathematics proficiency
EA 2.4 - Science proficiency
RELATED BEHAVIORS AND CHARACTERISTICS
EA 3.1.a - Parental reading to children
EA 3.1.b - Reading habits of children
EA 3.2 - Parental involvement in school
by Donald J. Hernandez, Ph.D., U.S. Bureau of the Census
Population Size and Composition
Geographic Distribution of the Population
Marriage and Divorce
Childbearing and Family Size
Childbearing among Unmarried Women
Life Expectancy and Mortality
Household Size and Composition
THE FAMILY ENVIRONMENT OF CHILDREN
The Revolutionary Rise in Father's Non-Farm Work
The Revolutionary Decline in Large Families
The Revolutionary Rise in Educational Attainments
Why the Revolutions in Father's Work, Family Size, and Schooling?
The Revolutionary Rise in Mother's Labor Force Participation
Why the Revolution in Mother's Labor Force Participation?
The Revolutionary Rise in Mother-Only Families
Historic Experience with One-Parent Families
The Myth of the "Ozzie and Harriet Family"
Family Income and Poverty
Accounting for Poverty Change
The Relative Value of Welfare Benefits
Relative Poverty Work, and Welfare Dependence
Official Poverty, Work, and Welfare Dependence
Working Men with Low Earnings
The Preschool Childcare Revolution
Housing for Families with Children
Children Living with Grandparents and in Doubled-Up Families
Poverty, Work Status, and Family Break-up and Doubling-Up
Official Poverty and Health Insurance Coverage
Children with Disabilities
Children as the Unit of Statistical Analysis
Children and Public Policy
Historical and Important Future Statistics on Children
Concluding Observations