The Child Indicator: The Child, Youth, and Family Indicators Newsletter, 2001.

This document consists of four issues of a quarterly newsletter to communicate the major developments within each sector of the child and youth indicators field. The newsletters feature regular sections on the community, state, and national scenes, and include sections of resources and data. The Spring 2001 issue includes articles on the results of the Youth Tobacco Survey; social assets and vulnerabilities indicators for central Indiana; and indicators of positive psychological well-being. The Summer 2001 issue includes articles on the National Conference on Child and Youth Indicators; a report on human exposure to environmental chemicals; and the International Child Well-Being Project list of indicators. The Fall 2001 newsletter contains articles on using the 2000 Census supplementary survey to illuminate child well-being; the micro-level census data available through IPUMS (Integrated Public Use Microdata Series); the Neighborhood Change Database; the Programme for International Student Assessment; and work to improve indicators on disabled children and youth. The Winter 2001 issue includes articles on state-level indicators of maternal, infant, and child health; the Monitoring the Future Survey; basic training in the use of social indicators; and a federal agency meeting to improve measures of marriage and family structure. (KB)