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Virginia KIDS COUNT is a data initiative designed to assess the overall well-being of Virginia's children.
Kids Count presents user-friendly state and local data, helping decision makers and advocates focus resources effectively for vulnerable children by identifying who they are, where they live, what puts them at risk and what helps prevent and combat problems they face.
Virginia KIDS COUNT, a project funded by the Annie E. Casey Foundation, is part of a national and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the U.S. The national KIDS COUNT project and research can be accessed at www.kidscount.org. Read about Annie E. Casey's support of Voices for Virginia's Children.
KIDS COUNT Online Data
- Locality-Level Data Community Level Information on Kids (CLIKs)
This interactive site allows users to access Virginia city, county, and state data and to create quick custom profiles, maps, and graphs. Simple CLIKs instructions
 State-Level Data
This system contains state-level data for over 100 measures of child well-being, including all the measures regularly used in the national KIDS COUNT Data Book. This easy-to-use, powerful online database allows you to generate custom reports for Virginia (Profiles) or to compare states on a topic (Ranking, Maps, and Line Graphs). - Census Data
This site consists of population data about age, gender, households, families, and housing units from the Census Short Form and social, economic, and housing data from the Census Long Form. You may view data for states, cities, counties and legislative districts.
Publications
- All Our Children: Ensuring a Bright Future for Virgina The purpose of this brief is to
better understand the assets and challenges all immigrant
families in Virginia face today and to consider the best ways to
meet the needs of children and families who will play a role in
Virginia ’s future. (Adobe PDF, March 2008)
- Virginia Head Start Data Brief - A History of Strengthing Families and Communities -(pdf, January 2008)
- Foster Care in Virginia: A Place to Call Home - This data brief highlights the opportunity for foster care reform in Virginia, provides a snapshot of children in foster care, and summarizes recent findings regarding permanency for youth in care in Virginia. (pdf, January 2008)
- Infant Mortality -Understanding the complexities of death among Virginia's youngest children Virginia KIDS COUNT data brief (June, 2007) -
Although Virginia ranks well among states on most indicators of child well-being, Virginia ranks poorly on infant mortality.
- School Readiness Indicators Data Book 2006 (pdf, 2mb, July, 2006)
The 2006 School Readiness Indicators data book contains key data elements that are documented by an impressive body of research as impacting school readiness, and that are currently collected at the state and local levels. The regular reporting of indicators that describe the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive well-being of children enables policymakers and opinion leaders to identify areas most in need of intervention, track the results of their investments, and watch trends over time. 5mb version These data are now online.
- 2007 National KIDS COUNT Data Book and Online Database
Data from the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s 2007 KIDS COUNT Data Book are now available in their easy-to-use, powerful online database, "State Level Data Online", that allows you to generate custom graphs, maps, ranked lists, and state-by-state profiles; or, download the entire data set as delimited text files.
- High School Dropout and Graduation Rates: What Do the Numbers Tell Us? (pdf, November 2006) A paper produced jointly by Voices for Virginia's Children and the JustChildren Program - This paper examines some of the challenges using graduation rate and dropout rate data and proposes solutions to both the data and dropout problems.
- 2005 Virginia KIDS COUNT Data Book Online (pdf) errata - The book features 20 indicators of child well-being for 2003 and 2000 for 134 Virginia localities, as well as for the Commonwealth of Virginia. This publication is produced every other year.
- The Self-Sufficiency Standard for Virginia calculates how much money working adults need to meet their basic needs without subsidies of any kind. Unlike the federal poverty standard, the Self-Sufficiency Standard accounts for the costs of living and working as they vary by family size and composition and by geographic location.
- Family Budget Calculator from the Economic Policy Institute. The Family Budget Calculator lets you determine the income needed for particular types of families to make ends meet. Because costs of goods and services vary across the U.S., the calculator customizes the budgets for every U.S. community—over 400 in all. Technical documentation is available on this web site so you can update each budget item.
- Data Resource List (pdf, March, 2005) This publication provides excellent sources for additional data related to children.
- Data Guide (pdf, December, 2003) This publication provides basic information about how use data.
- No Time to Waste - Indicators of School Readiness - 2004 Virginia Data Book Supplement The 2004 School Readiness Indicators data book contains key data elements that are documented by an impressive body of research as impacting school readiness, and that are currently collected at the state and local levels. Errata
For more information contact Mary Dunne Stewart mds@vakids.org or 804-649-0184 x 24.
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