The well-being of America's children : developing and improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index / Kenneth C. Land, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Land, Kenneth C.

Series:

Children's well-being: indicators and research series ; v. 6.

Children's well-being ; v. 6

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--United States--Social conditions.

Children.

Children--Research.

United States.

Social conditions.

Social indicators--United States.

Social indicators.

Well-being--Age factors--United States.

Well-being.

Well-being--Age factors.

Quality of life--United States.

Quality of life.

Children--Research--United States.

Physical Description:

viii, 269 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Dordrecht : Springer, [2012]

Summary:

This volume attests to the evolution of the Child Well-Being Index and asks what it promises for understanding the progress-or lack of progress-in enhancing the life prospects of all American children. Recent research on the general problem of conceptualizing and measuring the well-being of children and young people is covered, as well as the conceptual foundations of the Child Well-Being Index and its methods of construction. Further, the authors assess the methodological issues involved in the construction of composite quality-of-life indices and the question of the extent to which the Child Well-Being Index can be scaled to apply meaningfully to levels of analysis below the national level. In the end, the questions of what this Index tells us about changes in child and youth well-being in the US across recent decades at national, state, and substate regional levels and in international comparisons, and which additional data series need to be developed so that the Index can be improved, is addressed. Book jacket.

Contents:

Introduction / Kenneth C. Land

Conceptual and methodological foundations of the Child and Youth Well-Being Index / Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb and Sarah Meadows

The CWI and its components: empirical studies and findings / Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, Sarah Meadows, Hui Zheng and Qiang Fu

Measuring social disparities via the CWI: race-ethnicity, income, and immigrant status / Donald J. Hernandez, Suzanne Macartney and Wendy Cervantes

Perceived quality of life research on children and youth: implications for a system of national indicators / E. Scott Huebner, Susan P. Antaramian and Ashley Lewis Heffner

Issues in composite index construction / Michael R. Hagerty and Kenneth C. Land

Scalability of the CWI: state-level indicators and composite indices / Vicki L. Lamb and William P. O'Hare

Scalability of the CWI: substate regional indicators and composite indices / Qiang Fu, Vicki L. Lamb and Kenneth C. Land

Intergenerational and cross-national comparisons of child and youth well-being / Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb and Hui Zheng

Policy connections and practical implications of the CWI / Megan A. Curran, Shadi Houshyar and Bruce Lesley

Conclusions and future directions / Kenneth C. Land.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789400740914

9400740913

OCLC:

773666155