Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Indicators of children's well-being : a review of current indicators based on data from the federal statistical system / Brett V. Brown
  • Criteria for indicators of child well-being / Kristin A. Moore
  • Population indicators of prenatal and infant health / Paula Lantz and Melissa Partin
  • Health indicators for preschool children, ages one to four / Barbara L. Wolfe and James Sears
  • Health indicators for preadolescent school-age children / Barbara Starfield
  • Adolescent health indicators / Arthur B. Elster
  • Indicators for school readiness, schooling, and child care in early to middle childhood / Deborah A. Phillips and John M. Love
  • Indicators of high school completion and dropout / Robert M. Hauser
  • Postsecondary and vocational education : keeping track of the college track / Thomas J. Kane
  • Indicators of educational achievement / Daniel Koretz
  • Indicators of children's economic well-being and parental employment / Susan E. Mayer
  • Longitudinal indicators of children's poverty and dependence / Greg J. Duncan and Leslie Moscow
  • Parental employment and children / Judith R. Smith, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Aurora Jackson
  • Demographic change and the population of children : race/ethnicity, immigration, and family size / Dennis P. Hogan and David J. Eggebeen
  • Family structure, stability, and the well-being of children / Gary D. Sandefur and Jane Mosley
  • The influence of neighborhoods on children's development : a theoretical perspective and a research agenda / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Mary Elizabeth Hughes
  • Potential and problems in developing community-level indicators of children's well-being / Claudia J. Coulton
  • Indicators of positive development in early childhood : improving concepts and measures / J. Lawrence Aber and Stephanie M. Jones
  • Indicators of problem behavior and problems in early childhood / John M. Love
  • Positive indicators of adolescent development : redressing the negative image of American adolescents / Ruby Takanishi, Allyn M. Mortimer, and Timothy J. McGourthy
  • The status of adolescent problem behavior indicators / Bruce P. Kennedy and Deborah Prothrow-Stith
  • Potential and problems in developing indicators on child well-being from administrative data / Robert M. George
  • Context and connection in social indicators : enhancing what we measure and monitor / Marc L. Miringoff and Marque-Luisa Miringoff
  • Children in dire straits : how do we know whether we are progressing? / William R. Prosser and Matthew Stagner.