Indicators and Indices of Child Well-being: A Brief American History
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- 作者：Laura H. Lippman
- 关键词：child ; children ; child well ; being ; child development ; indicators ; indices ; child health ; social context ; context ; ecological context ; social indicators ; state ; of ; the ; child ; international comparisons ; states ; measures ; outcomes ; condition
- 刊名：Social Indicators Research
- 出版时间：August, 2007
- 出版年：2007
- 期刊代码：53_03038300
- 类别：cp
- 卷：83
- 期：1
- 页码：39-53
- 数据来源：sp
摘要
This paper traces the history of indicators and indices of child well-being from its origins in the social indicator movement of the 1970s through recent developments in the field. Initial work calling for comprehensive sets of indicators of child well-being and later recommendations for indicator improvement are detailed. Products that resulted from these recommendations, such as comprehensive indicator reports and online resources are described. The development of child well-being indices is shown to parallel the history of indicators. The contributions of state and international indicator and index projects are included as well. Important aspects of child well-being indicator development are uncovered through documenting its history, including the need to focus on subjective as well as objective measures of well-being, and the need to develop indicators for the multiple ecological contexts of children’s lives, but to separate measures of context from measures of child outcomes. A rough consensus emerges across the history of indicator efforts on the critical domains of child well-being: physical, psychological, cognitive, social, and economic well-being. Recent recognition of the importance of indicators of positive development is noted.