KIDS COUNT - Puerto Rico

Overview

There is a need to develop a common set of measurable and integrated facts and figures about the current status of Puerto Rico’s children. Preliminary research and data suggest that Puerto Rico has a number of pressing issues that currently affect children including:

The KIDS COUNT Puerto Rico project is an effort to address the information gap in order to improve the health, safety, education, economic security, and development of Puerto Rico's children. By providing policy-makers and citizens with benchmarks of child well-being, KIDS COUNT Puerto Rico seeks to enrich local and national discussions of ways to secure better futures for all our children.

KIDS COUNT – Puerto Rico Objectives:

1. To provide independent, credible, comprehensive information on Puerto Rico's children.
2. To provide information and strategies on "what works" and promote best practices that will improve indicators of child well-being.
3. To stimulate dialogue on children's issues and bring together individuals and organizations to develop strategies and solutions to improve children's lives.
4. To promote information-based advocacy efforts to affect public policies and programs for the improvement of children's lives.
5. To facilitate the sharing of a common vision of the future of Puerto Rico’s children.
   

KIDS COUNT –  Puerto Rico Database

CLIKS-Puerto Rico  (Community-Level Information on Kids) brings together data on the well-being of children and youth collected by KIDS COUNT Puerto Rico Project at the Islandwide and municipio level. It allows users to create the following custom reports:

Raw Data in a comma-delimited text file


KIDS COUNT –  Puerto Rico Recent Publications

New!  Municipio Snapshots Series The Municipio Snapshots Series is the first-ever comprehensive set of one-page profiles on the status of children in Puerto Rico, based on the data and findings of the KIDS COUNT – Puerto Rico project. View Snapshots

2008 National KIDS COUNT Data Book The 19th annual KIDS COUNT Data Book provides national and state-by-state information and statistical trends  on the conditions of America’s children and families.  For the second year in a row, data on the well-being of children living in Puerto Rico have been included in the Data Book.  The data for Puerto Rico come from the same sources as the information used for the 50 states and the District of Columbia.  Produced by The Annie E. Casey Foundation  Online|PDF, Full Book (6.3MB)

 
DISCLAIMER

KIDS COUNT – Puerto Rico is supported, in part, by The Annie E. Casey Foundation. We thank them for their support, but acknowledge that the data compiled and related analyses represent the work and/or views of NCLR alone, and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCLR’s funding sources.