TY  - BOOK
AU  - Land,Kenneth C.
TI  - The well-being of America's children: developing and improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index 
T2  - Children's well-being
SN  - 9789400740914
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Dordrecht
PB  - Springer
KW  - Children
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social indicators
KW  - Well-being
KW  - Age factors
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Research
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction; Kenneth C. Land --; Conceptual and methodological foundations of the Child and Youth Well-Being Index; Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb and Sarah Meadows --; The CWI and its components: empirical studies and findings; Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, Sarah Meadows, Hui Zheng and Qiang Fu --; Measuring social disparities via the CWI: race-ethnicity, income, and immigrant status; Donald J. Hernandez, Suzanne Macartney and Wendy Cervantes --; Perceived quality of life research on children and youth: implications for a system of national indicators; E. Scott Huebner, Susan P. Antaramian and Ashley Lewis Heffner --; Issues in composite index construction; Michael R. Hagerty and Kenneth C. Land --; Scalability of the CWI: state-level indicators and composite indices; Vicki L. Lamb and William P. O'Hare --; Scalability of the CWI: substate regional indicators and composite indices; Qiang Fu, Vicki L. Lamb and Kenneth C. Land --; Intergenerational and cross-national comparisons of child and youth well-being; Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb and Hui Zheng --; Policy connections and practical implications of the CWI; Megan A. Curran, Shadi Houshyar and Bruce Lesley --; Conclusions and future directions; Kenneth C. Land
ER  -