System Updates
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12 Children in Immigrant Families indicators using the 2005 ACS data updated |
3/1/2007 |
The following 12 indicators have been updated in the Children in Immigrant Families profile to include estmates from the 2005 American Community Survey (ACS) data:
Children in Immigrant Families
• Children living below the poverty threshold, by Immigrant status
• Children living in crowded households, by Immigrant status
• Children living in households that are owned, by Immigrant status
• Children living in linguistically isolated households, by Immigrant status
• Children living in low-income families (below 200% of the poverty threshold), by Immigrant status
• Children living with families that spend more than 30 percent of income on housing costs, by Immigrant status
• Children living without secure parental employment, by Immigrant status
• Children who have difficulty speaking English, by Immigrant status
• Children whose parents all have less than a high school degree, by Immigrant status
• Children with all available parents in the labor force, by Immigrant status
• Children with all available parents not in the labor force, by Immigrant status
• Median family income among households with children, by Immigrant status
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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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