Tracking the Well-Being of Children and Youth at the State and Local Levels Using the Federal Statistical System

Tracking the Well-Being of Children andYouth at the Stateand Local LevelsUsing the FederalStatistical SystemTracking the Well-Being of Children andYouth at the Stateand Local LevelsUsing the FederalStatistical SystemAn Urban InstituteProgram to AssessChanging Social PoliciesOccasional Paper Number 52Assessingthe NewFederalismBrett V. Brown Child Trends Tracking the Well-Being of Children andYouth at the Stateand Local LevelsUsing the FederalStatistical SystemBrett V. Brown Child TrendsOccasional Paper Number 52An Urban Institute Program to Assess Changing Social PoliciesThe Urban Institute2100MStreet,N.W.Washington,DC20037Phone:202.833.7200Fax:202.429.0687E-Mail:paffairs@ui.urban.orghttp://www.urban.org Copyright © September 2001. The Urban Institute. All rights reserved. Except for short quotes, no part of thisbook may be reproduced in any form or utilized in any form by any means, electronic or mechanical, includingphotocopying, recording, or by information storage or retrieval system, without written permission from theUrban Institute.This paper is part of the Urban Institute’s Assessing the New Federalismproject, a multiyear project to monitorand assess the devolution of social programs from the federal to the state and local levels. Alan Weil is the projectdirector. The project analyzes changes in income support, social services, and health programs. In collaborationwith Child Trends, the project studies child and family well-being.The project has received funding from The Annie E. Casey Foundation, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, TheRobert Wood Johnson Foundation, The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Davidand Lucile Packard Foundation, The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Charles StewartMott Foundation, The McKnight Foundation, The Commonwealth Fund, the Stuart Foundation, the WeingartFoundation, The Fund for New Jersey, The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Joyce Foundation, andThe Rockefeller Foundation.The nonpartisan Urban Institute publishes studies, reports, and books on timely topics worthy of public consid-eration. The views expressed are those of the author and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, itstrustees, or its funders. Assessing the New Federalismis a multiyear Urban Institute projectdesigned to analyze the devolution of responsibility for social programsfrom the federal government to the states, focusing primarily on healthcare, income security, employment and training programs, and social ser-vices. Researchers monitor program changes and fiscal developments. In collaborationwith Child Trends, the project studies changes in family well-being. The project aimsto provide timely, nonpartisan information to inform public debate and to help stateand local decisionmakers carry out their new responsibilities more effectively.Key components of the project include a household survey, studies of policies in 13states, and a database with information on all states and the District of Columbia,available at the Urban Institute’s Web site (http://www.urban.org). This paper isone in a series of occasional papers analyzing information from these and othersources.About the Series ContentsExecutive Summary viiIntroduction 1Data Resources 2Economics and Demographics 2Decennial Census 2American Community Survey (ACS) 4Census 2000 Supplementary Survey (C2SS) 4Child Population Estimates and Projections, and Child Poverty Estimates 4State-Level Estimates from the Current Population Survey (CPS) 5The American Housing Survey 6Health 7Vital Statistics 7Disease Surveillance Systems 9Health Surveys 9Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) 9Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS) 10Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) 10National Immunization Survey (NIS) 10State and Local Area Integrated Telephone Survey (SLAITS) of Children with Special Health Care Needs 11National Household Survey of Drug Abuse (NHSDA) 11National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) 12 Education 12National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) 13Common Core of Data (CCD) 14Enrollment and High School Graduation Projections 14Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) 15Crime and Juvenile Justice 15Easy Access System 16FBI Arrest Statistics 16State and County Juvenile Court Case Counts 16Juvenile Court Statistics 16FBI Supplementary Homicide Reports 16Census of Juveniles in Residential Placement Databook 17OJJDP Statistical Briefing Book and the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics 17Child Welfare 17National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) 17Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System (AFCARS) 18Selected Nonfederal Data Sources 18National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) and the ANF State Database 19Kids