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Oct. 16, 2008
How Immigrant Parents View Their
Children's Health and Well Being
Now, Kidsdata.org offers 24
new indicators of immigrant parents' views about the well being of
their children. The indicators, drawn from Kidsdata's Bay Area Parent
Poll, look at immigrant parents' perceptions on a range of issues influencing
their children's health, including: education,
child
stress, concern
about depression, ability
to meet basic needs, dental
care and health
care. You can compare the responses of immigrant and non-immigrant
parents and, for some issues, examine differences
by income level and region
of origin in how immigrant parents rate their children's well being.
Sept. 18, 2008
New Indicator: Housing Affordability
for First-Time Buyers
Kidsdata.org now offers the First-Time
Buyer Housing Affordability Index, which measures the percentage of
households that can afford to buy an entry-level home (a home priced at
85% of the prevailing median price for existing homes). This replaces
the Housing Affordability Index, which is no longer available. In the
Bay Area, Santa Clara County experienced the steepest decline in affordability
from 2003 to 2007, according to this index, and all six Bay Area counties
trailed the state in 2007 in affordability.
Aug. 21, 2008
Share & Bookmark Data
A new feature makes it easy to bookmark and share kidsdata web pages.
Look for the "share" icon -- you'll see it alongside the "print"
and "e-mail" icons at the top of every data page. The service
provides easy access to Del.icio.us, Digg, Facebook, Google, and other
personal bookmarking services, most of which also allow you to share web
pages with others.
July 17, 2008
New Kidsdata.org Feature: PDF Overviews
With one click, you now can download a formatted summary of data for each
topic, demographic group, county, city, and school district on kidsdata.org.
Just look for the "PDF overview" link at the top of any Data
by Topic, Data
by Region or Data
by Demographic page, or find all PDF Overviews here: http://www.kidsdata.org/factsheets.jsp
July 17, 2008
New Topic Added: Family Structure
You now can find data on family structure in the six Bay Area counties
and the state. Highlights include:
July 10, 2008
New Fact Sheet: Autism Diagnoses
on the Rise
Based on information available on kidsdata.org, this online
data summary presents Bay Area county data on the number and rate
of public school students with autism in recent years, as well as links
to local, regional, and national services and resources.
http://www.kidsdata.org/autismbrief
May 5, 2008
Just Where Is That School District
As you may have noticed, we've added small maps to all of our data
by region pages to help you situate the locale that you're viewing.
April 22, 2008
Which School Districts Have
Health Centers?
You now can find data on the number of school health centers in school
districts across the Bay Area. Offerings at centers vary, but can include
primary or dental care, mental health, reproductive health, and vision
services. Students
in San Francisco have greater access to school health centers than
their peers in the five other Bay Area counties or the state.
March 26, 2008
A Kidsdata Home Page Just For Your County
Starting today, you can access a focused version of kidsdata for Contra Costa, Alameda, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo, and Santa Clara counties. Each site offers the same breadth of information as the Bay Area-wide kidsdata, but data on the county-specific kidsdata sites are concentrated for each county and its cities and school districts, allowing faster access to the facts you need.
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