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Update #20

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14 Employment and Income indicators using the 2005 ACS and 2006 CPS data

11/2/2006

The Employment and Income indicators featured on the State-Level Data Online System have been updated to include the 2005 American Community Survey (ACS) data and the 2006 Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement, the latest version for both of these data sources. Indicators that have been updated include the following:

• Children age 6 to 12 with all available parents in the labor force
• Children in low-income families living in households without a telephone
• Children in low-income households where housing costs exceed 30 percent of income
• Children in low-income working families, by Age Group
• Children living in crowded housing
• Children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment
• Children living in low-income households where no adults work
• Children under age 6 with all available parents in the labor force
• Children under age 6 with no parent in the labor force
• Children without a telephone at home
• Children without a vehicle at home
• Female-headed families receiving child support
• Median family (with child) income
• Unemployed teens age 16 to 19

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There are currently ten KIDS COUNT measures: percent low birth-weight babies; infant mortality rate; child death rate; rate of teen deaths by accident, homicide, and suicide; teen birth rate; percent of children living with parents who do not have full-time, year-round employment; percent of teens who are high school dropouts; percent of teens not attending school and not working; percent of children in poverty; and percent of families with children headed by a single-parent. The Data Book also provides background information for each state, including demographic and family income data.

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