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Indicators and Indices of Child Well-being: A Brief American History.
- Source :
- Social Indicators Research; Aug2007, Vol. 83 Issue 1, p39-53, 15p
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- This paper traces the history of indicators and indices of child well-being from its origins in the social indicator movement of the 1970s through recent developments in the field. Initial work calling for comprehensive sets of indicators of child well-being and later recommendations for indicator improvement are detailed. Products that resulted from these recommendations, such as comprehensive indicator reports and online resources are described. The development of child well-being indices is shown to parallel the history of indicators. The contributions of state and international indicator and index projects are included as well. Important aspects of child well-being indicator development are uncovered through documenting its history, including the need to focus on subjective as well as objective measures of well-being, and the need to develop indicators for the multiple ecological contexts of children’s lives, but to separate measures of context from measures of child outcomes. A rough consensus emerges across the history of indicator efforts on the critical domains of child well-being: physical, psychological, cognitive, social, and economic well-being. Recent recognition of the importance of indicators of positive development is noted. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 03038300
- Volume :
- 83
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Social Indicators Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25130290
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-006-9058-2