Child's Day: 2006 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being). Household Economic Studies. Current Population Reports

摘要

This is the fourth report examining childrens well-being and their daily activities both at home and at school based on data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). Since the SIPP data are now available for various years between 1998 and 2006, this report highlights trends in parental interaction with children, childrens participation in extracurricular activities, and school engagement. This report focuses on two outcome measures: (1) school engagement and (2) whether children are academically on-track. Further, it considers the relative importance of characteristics such as race, Hispanic origin, and parental education on those outcomes. The data in this report were collected by the U.S. Census Bureau from June through September 2006 as part of the child wellbeing topical module in the eighth wave (interview) of the 2004 Panel of the SIPP.