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Hernandez DJ, Macartney SE. [2006]. Measuring social disparities: A modified approach to the Index of Child Well-Being (CWI) for race-ethnic, immigrant-generation, and socioeconomic groups with new results for whites, blacks, and Hispanics. [NewYork, NY]: Foundation for Child Development, 16 pp.

Annotation: This paper presents a methodology that measures disparities across children in different ethnic groups (white, African Americans, and Hispanics), including future trends in disparities.The methodology makes it possible to show whether disparities have been eliminated or how much change would be required to eliminate disparities. Topics include (1) methodology for the current Index of Child Well-Being (CWI), (2) modified methodology for special racial and ethnic groups, (3) selected results using the modified methodology, (4) magnitudes and trends in racial-ethnic disparities, (5) trends in the black-white CWI disparity, (6) trends in the Hispanic-white CWI disparity, and (7) conclusions. References are included.

Contact: Foundation for Child Development, 295 Madison Avenue, 40th Floor, New York, NY 10017, Telephone: (212) 867-5777 Fax: (212) 867-5844 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.fcd-us.org Available from the website.

Keywords: Minority groups, Children, Ethnic factors, Hispanics, Racial factors, Trends, Whites, Blacks
   

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