Kids Count Data Book

Report on Children & Families in America

The 2008 Kids Count Data Book is now available from the Annie E. Casey Foundation. The goal of the book is to increase public awareness and understanding about the needs of children and families. It provides a state-by-state statistical report of the health, educational, social, and economic condition of American children.

Kids Count Data Book is an important resource for people working to improve the well-being of children in America. Business leaders, policymakers, children's advocates, educators, the media, and others value the Data Book as a reliable source of unbiased, statistical information about the condition of children and families in America.

The 2008 Kids Count Data Book provides an easy-to-use, powerful online database, the KIDS COUNT Data Center, which allows you to generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles or download the entire data set as delimited text files. 

Explore the entire Annie E. Casey Foundation Web site at  www.kidscount.org .