California’s Data Wish List

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Recently, we announced the data we’re planning to add to kidsdata.org in 2011 — obesity, truancy, preterm births, and more. (See the full list.) These additions are the result of conversations we’ve had with individuals across the state. We also asked kidsdata.org users to suggest topics they’d like to see on the site. We thought others would be interested in seeing the suggestions we received, which included:

• Sex education programs in schools
• Special education enrollment for preschool-age children
• Undocumented youth not attending school and not working
• Children who qualify for dental care with Medi-Cal, but don’t know how to access services
• Pregnant women diagnosed with gestational diabetes
• Children whose parents are incarcerated
• Comparisons of California to national data

Here at kidsdata, we’ll certainly consider these suggestions by adding them to our data wish list. Of course, sometimes there is no source that collects data in a uniform way for some of these topics.

Do you know of data sources for the suggestions above? Do you have other topics to add to this list? Please keep the suggestions coming; we’re listening.

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Posted by Jordan Handcox

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