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Creation of a Child Well-Being Index Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Creation of a Child Well-Being Index Using the Survey of Income and Program Participation
Introduction
Why develop a child wellbeing index using SIPP data?
—Interest in child well-being among academics, policy analysts, and statistical agencies
—Importance of understanding what factors influence child well-being. “The economic, social, and physical environment affect the likelihood that a child will grow to be a well-educated, economically stable, productive, healthy adult” (Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics, 2011)
—Index allows tracking of changes in child wellbeing across time for both groups of children, and for individual children in the survey Child Well-Being Index would be available to SIPP data users for use in research
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Population Association of America, San Francisco, CA May 3-5, 2012.
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