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How are the Kids Doing? How do We Know?
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Land, Kenneth C. Lamb, Vicki L. Zheng, Hui |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | With a focus on the United States, this paper addresses the basic social indicators question: How are we doing? More specifically, with respect to children, how are our kids (including adolescents and youths) doing? These questions can be addressed by comparisons: (1) to past historical values, (2) to other contemporaneous units (e.g., comparisons among subpopulations, states, regions, countries), or (3) to goals or other externally established standards. The Child and Youth Well-Being Index (CWI), which we have developed over the past decade, uses all three of these points of comparison. The CWI is a composite index based on 28 social indicator time series of various aspects of the well-being of children and youth in American society that date back to 1975, which is used as a base year for measuring changes (improvements or deterioration) in subsequent years. The CWI is evidence-based not only in the sense that it uses time series of empirical data for its construction, but also because the 28 indicators are grouped into seven domains of well-being or areas of social life that have been found to define the conceptual space of the quality of life in numerous studies of subjective well-being. Findings from research using the CWI reported in the paper include: (1) trends in child and youth well-being in the United States over time, (2) international comparisons, and (3) best-practice analyses. |
| Starting Page | 463 |
| Ending Page | 477 |
| Page Count | 15 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11205-010-9624-5 |
| Volume Number | 100 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.soc.duke.edu/~cwi/Section_I/I-7HowAretheKidsDoing.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-010-9624-5 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
