America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being 2007

The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics seeks to enhance and improve consistency in data collection and reporting on children and families. This 2007 resource provides a set of key indicators that measure important aspects of children’s lives. The indicators included in this report met the following criteria: easy to understand by broad audiences, objectively based on substantial research connecting them to child well-being and easily estimated using reliable data; balanced, so that no single area of children’s lives dominates the report; measured regularly, so that they can be updated and show trends over time; and representative of large segments of the population, rather than one particular group.