caa a22 4500 467916810 CHVBK 20180406152905.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20060101xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11205-004-6398-7 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11205-004-6398-7 A Sociodemographic Risk Index [Elektronische Daten] [Kristin Moore, Sharon Vandivere, Zakia Redd] In this paper, we conceptualize and develop an index of sociodemographic risk that we hypothesize will be an improvement over the standard poverty measure as a measure of risk for children's development. The poverty line is widely used in government statistics and in research but is also widely acknowledged to have multiple shortcomings. Using recent data from the National Survey of America's Families, we develop and examine a Sociodemographic Risk Index for two potential purposes: (a) to serve as a summary indicator of children's environments that affect their well-being, and (b) to serve as a variable that can be used to identify at-risk subgroups of children whose well-being should be examined separately in indicator reports. Based on substantial research on children's development, we chose five variables for the index: family income, family structure, parent education, family size, and home ownership. An additive sociodemographic risk index using these variables is strongly associated with multiple measures of child well-being in both bivariate and multivariate analyses. Hence, it serves as a good marker of risk for children and therefore as an indicator that could be monitored over time, across groups, and across places, as well as a variable that could be used to identify subgroups of at-risk children whose well-being should be monitored. However, analyses do not indicate that it performs better at identifying at-risk children than the current poverty measure. Therefore, we recommend the Sociodemographic Risk Index primarily as an additional summary indicator to be monitored, rather than as a replacement for the poverty measure. Springer, 2006 child nationallicence children nationallicence child well-being nationallicence demographic risk nationallicence educational attainment nationallicence family income nationallicence family size nationallicence family structure nationallicence family well-being nationallicence home ownership nationallicence index nationallicence indicators nationallicence measures nationallicence outcomes nationallicence poverty nationallicence poverty indicator alternative nationallicence risk nationallicence single parent household nationallicence social risks nationallicence sociodemographic risk index nationallicence sociodemographic risk nationallicence socioeconomic risk nationallicence Moore Kristin Child Trends, 4301 Connecticut Ave. Suite 100, 20008, Washington, DC, USA aut Vandivere Sharon Child Trends, 4301 Connecticut Ave. Suite 100, 20008, Washington, DC, USA aut Redd Zakia Child Trends, 4301 Connecticut Ave. Suite 100, 20008, Washington, DC, USA aut Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 75/1(2006-01-01), 45-81 0303-8300 75:1<45 2006 75 11205 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-004-6398-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-004-6398-7 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Moore Kristin Child Trends, 4301 Connecticut Ave. Suite 100, 20008, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Vandivere Sharon Child Trends, 4301 Connecticut Ave. Suite 100, 20008, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Redd Zakia Child Trends, 4301 Connecticut Ave. Suite 100, 20008, Washington, DC, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Indicators Research Kluwer Academic Publishers 75/1(2006-01-01), 45-81 0303-8300 75:1<45 2006 75 11205 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer