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6/16/2009
Bay Area Not Meeting National Objective for Low Birthweight Infants
An analysis of data recently posted to kidsdata.org shows that neither California nor the six Bay Area counties meet the national Healthy People 2010 objective of having no more than 5 percent of babies born at low birthweight, as the chart below describes. In fact, throughout the Bay Area and California, the percentage of infants born at Hispanic/Latino infants are least likely to be born at low birthweight in both California and four out of the six Bay Area counties. Across California and the Bay Area, more than one in 10 African American infants are born at low birthweight, the highest percentage for any race/ethnicity.
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5/27/2009
Today the Bay Area, Soon the Whole State. Kidsdata Expands.
Beginning in Fall 2009, kidsdata.org will offer data for all counties, cities, and school districts in California. Approximately 200 indicators will become available statewide. For more information, and to sign up to be notified when the statewide site launches, visit kidsdata.org/statewide.
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3/23/2009
Now Available: California Healthy Kids Survey Results: What Kids Say About Their Own Behavior, Feelings
Beginning this month, exercise, nutrition, and school connectedness data from the California Healthy Kids Survey (CHKS) are available on kidsdata.org, the result of a new partnership between the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health and WestEd, which administers the CHKS for the California Department of Education. Kidsdata.org will add CHKS data on additional topics in the coming months.
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2/3/2009
A Profile of Children with Special Health Needs
Roughly 10 percent of children in California have special health care needs, such as asthma, heart problems, mental retardation or another condition that makes them frequent users of the state's health care system. Now available on kidsdata.org are a range of measures to describe how these children are faring. The 38 indicators include demographic data, and measurements of their ability to access services, the adequacy of their health insurance and the impact of their condition on themselves and their families.
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10/16/2008
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.
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9/18/2008
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.
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9/17/2008
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/datasummaries/
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9/17/2008
New Topic Added: Family Structure
You now can find data on family structure in the six Bay Area counties and the state. Highlights include:
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9/10/2008
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.
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8/21/2008
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.
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5/5/2008
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.
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4/22/2008
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.
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3/26/2008
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.