KIDS COUNT Data Center

The following indicators have been updated within the categories Children in Immigrant Families, Education, Employment and Income, Health, Population and Familiy Characteristics, and Youth Risk Factors using the latest 2006 American Community Survey data:

Children in Immigrant Families

• Children in immigrant families
• Child population, by Nativity
• Children in immigrant families in which resident parents are not U.S. citizens
• Children in immigrant families in which resident parents have been in the country five years or less
• Children in immigrant families in which resident parents have difficulty speaking English
• Children in immigrant families in which resident parents have less than a 9th grade education
• Children in immigrant families with at least one parent from Latin America
• Children in low-income working families, by Immigrant status
• Children in married-couple families, by Immigrant status
• Children in single-parent families, by Immigrant status
• 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

Education

• Children enrolled in nursery school, preschool or kindergarten, by Age Group
• Children in households where the household head is a high school dropout
• Children in households where the householder has a bachelor's degree or higher
• Children that have difficulty speaking English
• Children that speak a language other than English at home
• High school graduates age 25-29 who have completed a bachelor's degree or higher
• Teens who are high school dropouts
• Young adults enrolled in or completed college

Employment and Income

• 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
• Low-income working families with children
• Median family (with child) income
• Unemployed teens age 16 to 19

Population and Family Characteristics

• Child population, by Household Type
• Children in immigrant families
• Children in single-parent families
• Children living with cohabiting domestic partners
• Children living with neither parent
• Grandchildren in the care of grandparents

Poverty

• Children in poverty (100%)
• Children below 150% poverty
• Children below 200% poverty
• Children below 250% poverty
• Children in extreme poverty (50%)
• Children under age 5 in poverty
• Children under age 6 in poverty
• Persons 18 to 24 in poverty
• Population in poverty
• Single-parent families with related children that are below poverty
• Married-couple families with related children that are below poverty
• Families with related children that are below poverty

Youth Risk Factors

• Persons age 18-24 not attending school, not working, and no degree beyond high school
• Teens not attending school and not working