Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
July 2002
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics recently issued this useful 127-page volume of data spanning a wide array of indicators of U.S. children's well-being, billed as the sixth annual report on "the condition of children." It includes basic demographics, "economic security," education, health and "behavior and social environment" and within many categories it displays trend data as well as the latest numbers. Outside of educational achievement, there's much good news here having to do with declining poverty, crime and mortality rates. This is a reference work, not a news item, but worth having in your data library. You can find it on the web at http://childstats.gov/americaschildren/.
