Kidsdata.org Named a Health Data Consortium All-Star!
Kidsdata.org is honored to be named one of the Health Data Consortium’s All-Stars!
The Health Data Consortium is a nonprofit collaborative of government, non-profit, and for-profit organizations that works to make data more available to the public to improve American health care.
The folks at Health Data Consortium liked how easy kidsdata.org is to use and how indicators can be visualized in different ways. Kidsdata.org was created by the nonpartisan Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health to promote the health and well being of California’s kids. Data are available for every city, county, and school district in California, organized by topic, region and demographic group. Leaders working on behalf of children use kidsdata.org to assess community needs, set priorities, track progress, make program and policy decisions, and identify challenges still to be met.
In the spirit of sharing, here are some other child data All-Stars named by the Health Data Consortium:
Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health
The Data Resource Center provides free data sets for the National Surveys of Children’s Health and National Surveys of Children with Special Health Care Needs. They provide national and state-level data on child health factors and indicators from these surveys so that the public can stay well-informed about issues prevalent in child health.
Kids Count
Kids Count uses data supplied by the Annie E. Casey Foundation to offer hundreds of measures of children well-being from education to demographics to health factors. You have to option of searching for data by state or by topic. Information is organized in rankings, charts, maps, and line graphs and is easily customizable by years, race, and data type. Its user-friendly interface makes it very easy to use, and the range in topics Kinds Count covers is immense.
Child Trends
Child Trends Databank allows you to see their research on various topics such as child welfare, education, indicators, and parenting. They track and analyze trends, identify evidence-based programs and services, and providing data-driven guidance on policies and practices regarding children. Their goal is to help public policy makers see what programs do and don’t work to enhance children’s development.
Posted by Amy Lam
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