Just found this excellent data website: kidsdata.org, sponsored by the Lucille Packard Foundation. It contains all sorts of useful data on kids (related to poverty, physical health, emotional and behavioral health, education, language, immigration, family income, etc.) that is clearly organized and can even be presented in different, easy-to-read formats with the mere click of a button (toggle between table, bar chart, pie, trends).
PLUS! It has a great list of other California-specific and national data sources related to children and families (and beyond):
http://www.kidsdata.org/data_sources.jsp?csid=0
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Research Analyst // October 24, 2008 at 2:39 pm |
This is a great data portal. The only problem I’ve encountered is use of Dept of Finance population projections for count and race distribution as opposed to the more commonly cited American Community Survey.
The Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDSCOUNT DataCenter is a similar data site where users can compare major metropolitan areas, states and the nation. They use primarily Census and the American Community Survey.
datanut // July 13, 2009 at 11:46 pm |
Thank you for the excellent note on the kidsdata.org data sources and great tip on AEC’s KIDSCOUNT DataCenter.