American Indian and Alaska Native Children: Findings from the Base Year of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B)

摘要

This E.D. TAB briefly profiles American Indian and Alaska Native children born in the year 2001. In the base-year collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), when the children were about 9 months of age, the study interviewed parents (typically the mother), assessed children, and gathered information directly from the children's father. This report focuses on the information gathered from American Indian and Alaska Native children and their families, providing basic demographic information on the children, information on some of their specific mental and physical skills, a brief profile of their experiences in child care, and, since the ECLS-B is one of the first national studies to collect information specifically from fathers, some descriptive information on the percentage of children with fathers in their lives. The ECLS-B was designed to provide more reliable estimates of information on American Indian and Alaska Native children than is often available in other national studies of child outcomes.