A Child's Day: Living Arrangements, Nativity, and Family Transitions: 2011 (Selected Indicators of Child Well-Being). Current Population Reports, P70-139

The well-being of children is a growing area of interest to researchers and policy makers who focus on the social, cognitive, and economic security of children as they transition from preadolescents to young adults. This report uses a variety of indicators to portray aspects of children's well-being. The findings come from interviews conducted in the fall of 2011 for the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP). This report highlights how family structure, nativity, and family instability are associated with selected measures of child well-being. Measures of child well-being include family reading practices, shared meal times, television rules, children's extracurricular activities, and school performance, as well as early child care experiences (see definition box for "SIPP Child Well-Being Data"). The report contains four sections: (1) household and family characteristics; (2) children's living arrangements and selected indicators of child well-being; (3) selected indicators of child well-being for children living with foreign-born parents; and (4) household and economic transitions and selected indicators of child well-being.