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Update #4

Updated

36 indicators using the newly released 2004 ACS data

10/17/2005

The following indicators have been updated to include 2004 American Community Survey (ACS) data:

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

Poverty
• Children in poverty (100%)
• Children in extreme poverty (50%)
• Children below 150% poverty
• Children below 200% poverty
• Children below 250% poverty
• Children under age 5 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

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

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

Population and Family Characteristics
• Child population, by Household Type
• Children in single-parent households
• Children in households with a grandparent-caregiving relationship
• Children living with cohabiting domestic partners
• Children in immigrant families

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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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