The 2010 KIDS COUNT Data Book ranked Wisconsin 10th in the nation for overall child well-being.
The KIDS COUNT Data Book is an annual publication from the Annie E. Casey Foundation which provides national data and state-by-state data and rankings on 10 key indicators of child well-being to illuminate the status of America’s
children and to assess trends in their well-being.
The 2010 KIDS COUNT study compared local, state, and federal data for 2008 to the same data from 2000 and focused on 10 key child well-being indicators. Wisconsin made progress from 2000 to 2008 in five of the ten indicators: infant mortality rate, child death rate, teen death rate, teen birth rate, and percent of teens not in school and not high school graduates. But, ground was lost in three of the key indicators as increases in the percentages of low-birthweight babies, children in poverty, and children in single-parent families occurred over the same time period. Comparable data for two indicators, percent of teens not attending school and not working and percent of children living in families where no parent has full-time, year-round employment, was not available.
More Wisconsin data can be found on the state’s profile sheet and on the state’s page at the KIDS COUNT data center.
