Indicators of child well-being through a neighborhood lens

Adverse child outcomes tend to be concentrated in neighborhoods with constellations of adverse conditions and risk factors. This paper examines the challenges of developing meaningful and useful indicators of child well-being at the level of the neighborhood. Recent technological advances have made...

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Published in:Social indicators research 2007-12, Vol.84 (3), p.349-361
Main Authors: Coulton, Claudia J., Korbin, Jill E.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adults
Censuses
Child abuse
Child molestation
Child neglect
Child rearing
Child welfare
Children
Children & youth
Codes
Communities
Community Relations
Economic indicators
Geographic Concepts
Geography
Indicators
Individual Characteristics
Living conditions
Measurement
Neighborhood conditions
Neighborhoods
Neighbourhoods
Perceptions
Place of Residence
Poverty
Risk
Risk Factors
Social Attitudes
Social Change
Social Indicators
Social Networks
Social Organizations
Social research
Studies
Urban Areas
Welfare economics
Well Being
Wellbeing
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Summary:Adverse child outcomes tend to be concentrated in neighborhoods with constellations of adverse conditions and risk factors. This paper examines the challenges of developing meaningful and useful indicators of child well-being at the level of the neighborhood. Recent technological advances have made it more feasible for communities to develop neighborhood indicators, but there are a number of practical, conceptual and methodological challenges that are involved in this work. In this article, we discuss the potential usefulness of neighborhood indicators, several of the conceptual and methodological challenges and offer some illustrations of neighborhood indicators that are pertinent to the well-being of children. In addition to administrative data, we discuss indicators of child well-being rooted in both child and adult perceptions of neighborhood.
ISSN:0303-8300
1573-0921
DOI:10.1007/s11205-007-9119-1