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Unintentional Teen Deaths in Utah, 1999 - 2007
CDC’s WISQARS™ (Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System) is an interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury data. Researchers, the media, public health professionals, and the public can use WISQARS™ data to learn more about the public health and economic burden associated with unintentional and violence-related injury in the United States. |
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Children in Immigrant Families: Highlights from the 2009 American Community Survey
The American Community Survey (ACS) began in 2000 and initially surveyed approximately 700,000 households nationwide. Beginning in January of 2005, the Census Bureau expanded the sample to 3 million households. The ACS is designed to provide annually updated social, economic, and housing data for states and communities. |
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Children who read on grade level by the end of third grade are more successful in school, work, and in life. This KIDS COUNT special report affirms a commitment by the Casey Foundation to help ensure that all students are proficient in reading by the end of third grade and help narrow the gap between advantaged and disadvantaged children. |
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| The American Community Survey (ACS) is designed to provide annually updated social, economic, and housing data for states and communities. Beginning in January of 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau expanded the ACS sample to 3 million households and it now provides users with poverty data on a yearly basis. The one year estimates are statistically sound at the state level. For county level data, three-year rolling averages are more accurate. The 2008, a family of two adults and two children fell into the "poverty" category if their annual income was below $21,200. |
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| The American Community Survey began in the late 1990's and is an ongoing data collection project of the U.S. Census Bureau. This factsheet identifies a list of data items or risk factors believed to have an impact on a child's life. |
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| When teens give birth, the consequences are far reaching and often times negative for both the mother and child, and society as a whole. Teen moms are more likely to not finish high school, 1 to have mothers who completed fewer years of schooling and to have mothers or older sisters who also gave birth as adolescents, 2 and to eventually go on welfare. 3 Children born to teenage parents are more likely to be of low birth-weight and to suffer from inadequate health care, more likely to leave high school without graduating, and more likely to be poor. |
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| The number of families below the poverty level has long been an important measure of economic stability. In the past, policymakers, advocates, and work support programs have relied on the federal poverty measure to determine eligibility based on income. |
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| The purpose of this publication is to look at how indicators of child well-being in Utah have changed over the last ten years. Have we made strides in improving their overall health? Have we done a better job of providing quality education, has their economic situation improved? |
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