North Dakota KIDS COUNT (NDKC) seeks to promote the well-being of North Dakota's children through data-based public awareness activities encouraging policy decisions that enhance the capacity of communities to provide the support networks families need to successfully raise their children.

Topics

• NDKC focuses on 7 categories of data representing multiple indicators of child health and well-being. See More

Publications

• Inform Fact Sheets summarize important trends and are published bimonthly. "Child Care Dismissals in North Dakota" was released May 2008. See More
• 2008 Issue Guides provide a profile of children's well-being for each of North Dakota's 47 Legislative Districts, as well as the state, in preparation for the 2008 election year. The guides were released March 2008. See More
• The 2007 Overview, released November 2007, provides an overview of trends in our seven primary categories of data. It also highlights strategies for North Dakota's future and provides information about advocating for our children. See More
• The 2007 Abridged Fact Book, released November 2007, is a condensed version of the traditional Fact Book. The Abridged Fact Book provides a quick comparison between counties and the state for select indicators. See More
• The 2007 North Dakota KIDS COUNT Fact Book, released July 2007, provides two-page state, regional, and county PDF profiles based on seven categories of data representing 79 children's well-being indicators. It also includes a Summary and Findings section. See More
• The 2007 Data Guide, released November 2007, is designed to help the public locate information on children's well-being that has been assembled by the national KIDS COUNT program and by North Dakota KIDS COUNT. See More
• The 2007 Head Start Fact Sheets, released November 2007, present data from the Head Start Program Information Reports. See More
• According to the national 2007 KIDS COUNT Data Book, released July 2007, North Dakota has an overall rank of 8 out of 50 states. See More

Interactive Data

• The national KIDS COUNT program provides interactive access to data -- for all states, including North Dakota -- in the form of profiles, graphs, maps, rankings, and raw data. See More
• All of the indicators represented in the Fact Book published by NDKC are available on the national CLIKS Community-Level Information on Kids website. CLIKS provides interactive access to the data in the form of historical trends, profiles, graphs, rankings, and maps. See More

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