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America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, 2008

List of Figures

Figures include data from 1950–2007, where available

open Population
Figure POP1. Child population: Number of chilgren ages 0–17 in the United States, 1950–2007 and projected 2008–2020
Figure POP2. Children as a proportion of the population: Children ages 0–17 and adults ages 65 and over as a percentage of the U.S. population, 1950–2007 and projected 2008–2020
Figure POP3. Percentage of U.S. children ages 0–17 by race and Hispanic origin, 1980–2007 and projected 2008–2020
open Family and Social Environment
Figure FAM1.A. Percentage of children ages 0–17 by presence of parents in the household, 1980–2007
Figure FAM1.B Percentage of children ages 0–17 living in various family arrangements, 2007
Figure FAM2.A Birth rates for unmarried women by age of mother, 1980–2006
Figure FAM2.B. Percentage of all births to unmarried women by age of mother, 1980 and 2006
Figure FAM3.A. Percentage of children ages 0–6 not yet in kindergarten by type of care arrangement, 2005
Figure FAM3.B. Primary child care arrangements for children ages 0–4 with employed mothers, selected years 1985–2005
Figure FAM3.C. Percentage of children in kindergarten through 8th grade by weekday care and activities, 2005
Figure FAM4. Percentage of children ages 0–17 by nativity of child and parents, selected years 1994–2007
Figure FAM5. Percentage of children ages 5–17 who speak a language other than English at home and who have difficulty speaking English, selected years 1979–2006
Figure FAM6. Birth rates for females ages 15–17 by race and Hispanic origin, 1980–2006
Figure FAM7. Rate of substantiated maltreatment reports of children ages 0–17 per 1,000 children, 1998–2006
open Economic Circumstances
Figure ECON1.A. Percentage of related children ages 0–17 living in poverty by family structure, 1980–2006
Figure ECON1.B. Percentage of related children ages 0–17 by family income relative to the poverty line, 1980–2006
Figure ECON2. Percentage of children ages 0–17 living with at least one parent employed year round, full time by family structure, 1980–2006
Figure ECON3.A. Percentage of children ages 0–17 in food-insecure households by annual household income, selected years 1995–2006
Figure ECON3.B. Percentage of children ages 2–18 by age and diet quality as measured by the Healthy Eating Index, 1994–1996, 1999–2000, and 2001–2002
open Health Care
Figure HC1. Percentage of children ages 0–17 covered by health insurance by type of health insurance, 1987–2006
Figure HC2. Percentage of children ages 0–17 with no usual source of health care by type of health insurance, 1993–2006
Figure HC3. Percentage of children ages 19–35 months with the 4:3:1:3:3 combined series of vaccinations by poverty status, 1996–2006
Figure HC4.A. Percentage of children ages 2–17 with a dental visit in the past year by poverty status, 1997–2006
Figure HC4.B. Percentage of children ages 2–17 with untreated dental caries (cavities) by age and poverty status, 1999–2002 and 2003–2004
open Physical Environment and Safety
Figure PHY1.A. Percentage of children ages 0–17 living in countries in which levels of one or more air pollutants rose above allowable levels, 1999–2006
Figure PHY1.B. Percentage of children ages 4–11 with specified blood cotinine levels, selected years 1988–2006
Figure PHY1.C. Percentage of children ages 0–6 living in homes where someone smokes regularly by poverty status, 2003
Figure PHY2. Percentage of children served by community water systems that did not meet all applicable health-based drinking water standards, 1993–2006
Figure PHY3.A. Percentage of children ages 1–5 with specified blood lead levels by race and Hispanic origin and poverty status, 2001–2004
Figure PHY3.B. Median blood lead concentrations among children ages 1–5, selected years 1976–2004
Figure PHY4. Percentage of households with children ages 0–17 that reported housing problems by type of problem, selected years 1978–2005
Figure PHY5. Rate of serious violent crime victimization of youth ages 12–17 by gender, 1980–2005
Figure PHY6.A. Emergency department visit rates for children ages 1–14 by leading causes of injury visits, 2005
Figure PHY6.B. Death rates among children ages 1–4 and 5–14, by all causes and all injury causes, 1980–2005
Figure PHY6.C. Death rates among children ages 1–4 and 5–14, by cause of death, 2005
Figure PHY7.A. Emergency department visit rates for adolescent ages 15–19 by leading causes of injury visits, 2005
Figure PHY7.B. Death rates among adolescents ages 15–19, all injury causes and selected mechanisms of injury, 1980–2005
open Behavior
Figure BEH1. Percentage of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students who reported smoking cigarettes daily over the past 30 days by grade, 1980–2007
Figure BEH2. Percentage of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-graders who reported having five or more alcoholic beverages in a row in the past 2 weeks by grade, 1980–2007
Figure BEH3. Percentage of 8th-, 10th-, and 12th-grade students who have used illicit drugs in the previous 30 days by grade, 1980–2007
Figure BEH4. Percentage of high school students who reported ever having had sexual intercourse by gender and selected grades, selected years 1991–2005
Figure BEH5. Rate of serious crimes by youth perpetrators ages 12–17, 1980–2005
open Education
Figure ED1. Percentage of children ages 3–5 who were read to every day in the last week by a family member by mother's education, selected years 1993–2005
Figure ED2.A. Average mathematics scale scores for students in grades 4, 8, and 12, selected years 1990–2007
Figure ED2.B. Average reading scale scores for students in grades 4, 8, and 12, selected years 1990–2007
Figure ED3. Percentage of high school graduates who had completed advanced coursework in mathematics, science, English, and foreign language, selected years 1982–2004
Figure ED4. Percentage of young adults ages 18–24 who have completed high school by race and Hispanic origin, 1980–2006
Figure ED5. Percentage of youth ares 16–19 who are neither enrolled in school nor working by gender, and race and Hispanic origin, 1985–2007
Figure ED6. Percentage of high school completers who were enrolled in college the October immediately after completing high school, by race and Hispanic origin, 1980–2006
open Health
Figure HEALTH1. Percentage of infants born with low birthweight by mother's race and Hispanic origin, 1980–2006
Figure HEALTH2. Death rates among infants by race and Hispanic origin of mother, 1983–2004
Figure HEALTH3. Percentage if children ages 4–17 reported by a parent to have serious emotional or behavioral difficulties by gender, 2001–2006
Figure HEALTH4. Percentage of children ages 5–17 with activity limitation resulting from one or more chronic health conditions by gender, 1999–2006
Figure HEALTH5. Percentage of children ages 6–17 who are overweight by gender, selected years 1976–2006
Figure HEALTH6. Percentage of children ages 0–17 with asthma, 1997–2006

Key

Figure POP3 is the same as figure 1
Figure FAM2A is the same as figure 2
Figure FAM6 is the same as figure 3
Figure ECON1A is the same as figure 4
Figure ECON2 is the same as figure 5
Figure HC1 is the same as figure 6
Figure HC4A is the same as figure 7
Figure PHY3A is the same as figure 8
Figure PHY4 is the same as figure 9
Figure BEH1 is the same as figure 10
Figure BEH3 is the same as figure 11
Figure ED2A is the same as figure 12
Figure ED4 is the same as figure 13
Figure HEALTH1 is the same as figure 14
Figure HEALTH6 is the same as figure 15