Contents
Foreword / Thomas J. Corbett
Preface / Matthew Stagner
Part I. Overview
Chapter 1. Indicators of Children's Well-Being: A Review of Current Indicators Based on Data from the Federal Statistical System / Brett V. Brown
Chapter 2. Criteria for Indicators of Child Well-Being / Kristin A. Moore
Part II. Health
Chapter 3. Population Indicators of Prenatal and Infant Health / Paula Lantz and Melissa Partin
Chapter 4. Health Indicators for Preschool Children, Ages One to Four / Barbara L. Wolfe and James Sears
Chapter 5. Health Indicators for Preadolescent School-Age Children / Barbara Starfield
Chapter 6. Adolescent Health Indicators / Arthur B. Elster
Part III. Education
Chapter 7. Indicators for School Readiness, Schooling, and Child Care in Early to Middle Childhood / Deborah A. Phillips and John M. Love
Chapter 8. Indicators of High School Completion and Dropout / Robert M. Hauser
Chapter 9. Postsecondary and Vocational Educations: Keeping Track of the College Track / Thomas J. Kane
Chapter 10. Indicators of Educational Achievement / Daniel Koretz
Part IV. Economic Security
Chapter 11. Indicators of Children's Economic Well-Being and Parental Employment / Susan E. Mayer
Chapter 12. Longitudinal Indicators of Children' Poverty and Dependence / Greg J. Duncan and Leslie Moscow
Chapter 13. Parental Employment and Children / Judith R. Smith, Jeanne Brooks-Gunn, and Aurora Jackson
Part V. Population, Family, Neighborhood
Chapter 14. Demographic Change and the Population of Children: Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, and Family Size / Dennis P. Hogan and David J. Eggebeen
Chapter 15. Family Structure, Stability, and the Well-Being of Children / Gary D. Sandefur and Jane Mosley
Chapter 16. The Influence of Neighborhoods on Children's Development: A Theoretical Perspective and a Research Agenda / Frank F. Furstenberg, Jr., and Mary Elizabeth Hughes
Chapter 17. Potential and Problems in Developing Community-Level Indicators of Children's Well-Being / Claudia J. Coulton
Part VI. Social Development and Problem Behavior
Chapter 18. Indicators of Positive Development in Early Childhood: Improving Concepts and Measures / J. Lawrence Aber and Stephanie M. Jones
Chapter 19. Indicators of Problem Behavior and Problems in Early Childhood / John M. Love
Chapter 20. Positive Indicators of Adolescent Development: Redressing the Negative Image of American Adolescents / Ruby Takanishi, Allyn M. Mortimer, and Timothy J. McGourthy
Chapter 21. The Status of Adolescent Problem Behavior Indicators / Bruce P. Kennedy and Deborah Prothrow-Stith
Part VII. Whither Indicators?
Chapter 22. Potential and Problems in Developing Indicators on Child Well-Being from Administrative Data / Robert M. George
Chapter 23. Context and Connection in Social Indicators: Enhancing What We Measure and Monitor / Marc L. Miringoff and Marque-Luisa Miringoff
Chapter 24. Children in Dire Straits: How Do We Know Whether We Are Progressing? / William R. Prosser and Matthew Stagner
Index