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Update #9

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4 new Health Profile indicators: children and teens exercise and weight, very low birthweight babies, and births by race

2/15/2006

The following indicators are new to the Health Profile:

• Children and teens not exercising regularly - Collected from the 2003 National Survey of Children Health.
• Children and teens overweight and obese - Collected from the 2003 National Survey of Children Health.
• Very Low-birthweight babies - Collected for 1996 through 2003 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics Reports.
• Births by race - Collected for 1990 through 2003 from the National Center for Health Statistics, Natality Data Set CD-Roms.

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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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