What data do you wish for?
Do you ever wish for something you can’t have?
In the data world, we have a lot of unfulfilled wishes because the data we need – or at the granularity that we need it – often just aren’t available, at least not yet. So, to address our goal of providing users with the most helpful data, we regularly seek suggestions for our data “wish list” for kidsdata.org. We’ve already added a variety of indicators that users have suggested, such as data on depression, school connectedness, and family structure. Ideas for new data arise from comments on this blog, and from conversations we have with users around the state, from Shasta to San Diego.
Leave a comment telling us what data you’d like to see.
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Since you asked…
– A wide range of data by race and gender. In Oakland, we’ve found that at some schools, African American girls have much higher graduation rates than their African American male peers. Looking at graduation rates by race/ethnicity alone obscures both strengths and barriers. I don’t know about other indicators, but the California Department of Education makes available high school graduation rates by race and gender.
– More data for Asian sub-groups. You could start with data from the CA Physical Fitness Test, which is available from DataQuest for quite a few Asian and Pacific Islander sub-groups including Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Laotian, Cambodian, Asian Indian, and Samoan students.
I agree that more data is needed to highlight health disparities that exist between the unique ethnic and nationality groups that collectively make up this Asian Pacific Islander (API) population. One report you may find interesting is “The State of Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Health in California,” produced by the California Asian Pacific Islander Joint Legislative Caucus, which begins to explore health differences that exist between sub-populations of Asian youth and adults in California. Here is a link to that report http://www.healthpolicy.ucla.edu/pubs/Publication.aspx?pubID=329