Statistics and Demographic Information
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Description: 4-H is a nationwide youth development program for K through 12th grade students, run by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Cooperative Extension System. The 4-H statistics page has links to annual enrollment data for 4-H youth development programs, spanning the last several years.
America's Children in Brief: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2009
Description: This is the federal monitoring report on the status of the nation's children produced by the Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics.
Description: "Child Trends is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that studies children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and data analysis..."
Children in the States (Data from 2008)
Description: This website provides state and national data on children. Data is provided for each individual state as well as some national comparisons and rankings of states in areas such as low birthweight, infant mortality, immunizations, and poverty.
Description: This is the home page for the Children's Defense Fund. Contains links to resources, policy information and grantmaking. Includes information on issues such as Child Care, Child Health, Child Welfare and Mental Health, Violence Prevention and Youth Development, and Family Income.
Description: The Children’s Defense Fund is a private, nonprofit organization and works to provide help to all the children of America, with particular attention being given to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities.
Description: The Children's Defense Fund is a lobbying group for the interests of children and families. They pay particular attention to the needs of poor and minority children and those with disabilities.
Federal Government Social Statistics Briefing Room
Description: "The purpose of this service is to provide easy access to current Federal social statistics. It provides links to information produced by a number of Federal agencies. All of the information included in the Social Statistics Briefing Room is maintained and updated by the statistical units of those agencies. All the estimates for the indicators presented in the Federal Statistics Briefing Rooms are the most currently available values."
Description: "FedStats is the new window on the full range of official statistical information available to the public from the Federal Government. Use the Internet's powerful linking and searching capabilities to track economic and population trends, health care costs, aviation safety, foreign trade, energy use, farm production, and more..."
Description: Since 1969, NAEP has conducted nationwide assessments of student achievement in various subjects. This report presents the results of NAEP's long-term trend assessments in reading and mathematics, administered in 2004 to students aged 9, 13, and 17.
National Center for Education Statistics
Description: The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) is responsible for collecting and analyzing education-related data in the United States and other nations.
National Center for Health Statistics
Description: The National Center for Health Statistics collects information on public health in the US. This site contains links to statistical information on health including vital statistics and Healthy People data.
National Child Welfare Data Analysis System
Description: The Child Welfare League of AmericaÂ’s National Data Analysis System is a comprehensive collection of child welfare data from all states.
Description: This link is to publications and statistics compiled by the National Youth Gang Center on youth gangs and other delinquency-related behavior.
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Description: The OJJDP Web site is designed to provide information and resources on both general areas of interest about juvenile justice and delinquency including conferences, funding opportunities, and new publications and the comprehensive strategy as a framework for communities to combat youth crime.
Description: This website is an integrated collection of the indicators and analyses published in The Condition of Education 2000 - 2007 -- an annual compendium report to Congress describing the current status and recent progress of education in the United States. Some indicators may have been updated since they appeared in print.
The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics
Description: The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics web site can be used to access federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families. This Forum consists of participants from government and private research organizations.
Trends in the Well-Being of America
Description: This reports contains data on various indicators of children and youth well-being (population, family, and neighborhood; economic security; health conditions and health care; social development and behavioral health; and education and achievement, updated annually.
Description: The goal of this site is to provide the best mix of timeliness, relevancy, quality, and cost for the data they collect and services they provide.
U.S. Census Bureau Press Newsroom
Description: Main page for United States Census 2010 website. This site contains information about the census' purpose, methods, and press release information.
UNICEF Evaluation Resources: Monitoring and Statistics 
Description: This resource includes UNICEF's national and international statistical data on women and children, evaluation methods and tools used by UNICEF, an evaluation database, and links to other evaluation sites.
United States Department of Education
Description: "This award-winning site is designed to help pursue the President's initiatives, including No Child Left Behind, and advance our mission as a Department—to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence for all Americans. It also supports the work of ED offices, led by senior ED officials..."
University of Michigan Documents Center
Description: This web site is a central reference and referral point for all kinds of government information, including local, state, federal, foreign and international resources.
Youth Indicators: Trends in the Well-Being of American Youth
Author: Fox, Mary Ann; Thomas D. Snyder; Brooke A. Connolly
Description: This report from the National Center for Education Studies is a statistical compilation of data on all aspects of the lives of young people, including family structure, economic factors, jobs, extracurricular activities, and other elements.
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Description: Monitoring the Future is an ongoing study of American youth. The behaviors, attitudes, and values of secondary school students, college students, and young adults are surveyed each year.
Description: The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
United States Department of Education Resesearch, Statistics, and Evaluation Information Center
Description: This site contains education-related research, program evaluation, and statistical information.
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Child Trends: Trends among Hispanic Children, Youth, and Families
Author: Williams, Stephanie
Description: A brief fact sheet of demograhic trends of Hispanic youth as compared to European American and African American youth.
Description: The ERS State Fact Sheets contain frequently requested data for each state and for the total United States. These include current data on population, per-capita income, earnings per job, poverty rates, employment, unemployment, farm and farm-related jobs, farm characteristics, farm financial characteristics, top agricultural commodities, top export commodities, and the top counties in agricultural sales.
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Author: Moore, Kristin (9 more by this author)
Description: This is a clearinghouse for the latest national trends and research on key indicators of child and youth well-being.
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Author: Moore, Kristin (9 more by this author)
Description: This is a clearinghouse for the latest national trends and research on key indicators of child and youth well-being.
Description: The Statistical Abstract of the United States, published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.