Child Study & Human Development (General)

An agency within the Department of Human Services, ACF includes policy and planning links to several statistical reports including statistics on adoption/foster care, Head Start programs, and child abuse.

Federal and state statistics and reports on children and their families, including population and family characteristics, economic security, health, behavior and social environment,and education. Reports include America's Children: Key National Indicators of Well-Being, the annual Federal monitoring report on the status of the Nation's children, and Nurturing Fatherhood.

Hosted by Rutgers University, the National Institute for Early Education Research conducts independent, research-based analysis and provides technical assistance on a number of policy-focused projects to improve early childhood education in the US. Their data explorer allows users to create custom reports and download data sets from The State of Preschool Yearbook data across states, territories, and time.

National and state-by-state effort to track the status of children in the United States. It measures the educational, social, economic, and physical well-being of children.