The well-being of America's children :  developing and improving the Child and Youth Well-Being Index / 
Kenneth C. Land, editor. 
 - Dordrecht :  Springer,  2012. 
 - viii, 269 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
 - Children's well-being ;  v. 6 .
 - Children's well being: indicators and research series ;  v. 6. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction /  Conceptual and methodological foundations of the Child and Youth Well-Being Index /  The CWI and its components: empirical studies and findings /  Measuring social disparities via the CWI: race-ethnicity, income, and immigrant status /  Perceived quality of life research on children and youth: implications for a system of national indicators /  Issues in composite index construction /  Scalability of the CWI: state-level indicators and composite indices /  Scalability of the CWI: substate regional indicators and composite indices /  Intergenerational and cross-national comparisons of child and youth well-being /  Policy connections and practical implications of the CWI /  Conclusions and future directions /  Kenneth C. Land --  Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb and Sarah Meadows --  Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, Sarah Meadows, Hui Zheng and Qiang Fu --  Donald J. Hernandez, Suzanne Macartney and Wendy Cervantes --  E. Scott Huebner, Susan P. Antaramian and Ashley Lewis Heffner --  Michael R. Hagerty and Kenneth C. Land --  Vicki L. Lamb and William P. O'Hare --  Qiang Fu, Vicki L. Lamb and Kenneth C. Land --  Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb and Hui Zheng --  Megan A. Curran, Shadi Houshyar and Bruce Lesley --  Kenneth C. Land. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9789400740914  RM450.77 9400740913 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Children--Social conditions.--United States<br/>Social indicators--United States.<br/>Well-being--Age factors--United States.<br/>Quality of life--United States.<br/>Children--Research--United States.