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Access profiles for many MD locations; rankings, maps, or trend graphs by topic; and raw data. Includes over 100 measures of child well-being, including the community-level data formerly in CLIKS.

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Profiles (Showing 11 Featured Indicators of full set)

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8th Graders Advanced Proficient-MSA (2010)	37.0%
8th Graders At or Above Proficient-NAEP (2009)	38.0%
Childhood Obesity (2007)	28.8%
Food Stamp Utilization Rate (2007)	59%
Children Without Annual Dental Care (2008)	63.3%
Children Removed From Their Homes (in the prior 12 months) (Jn-10)	3,122
Non-Family Placements (Jn-10)	20.3%
New Intake Cases Received (Jn-10)	40,555
Institutional Placements (Jn-10)	1,347
Recidivism Year After Release (2009)	56%
Juvenile Arrest Relative Rate Index (2008)	2.8

Featured Data for Maryland

Birth Outcomes

Low Birthweight (2009)

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Jurisdictional data is available.

Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene

The rate of low birthweight births is the percentage of babies born weighing 2,500 grams (5.5 lbs.) or less at birth. Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.

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Data highlights selected by our KIDS COUNT state grantee.
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Ten important indicators of child well-being included in our annual KIDS COUNT Data Book.
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Maryland Grantee

Advocates for Children and Youth 8 Market Place
Suite 500
Baltimore, MD 21202

410-547-9200 x3012
APassarella@acy.org
http://www.acy.org

Al Passarella, Research and Policy Associate

ACY's mission is to identify problems, promote policies and programs that improve results for Maryland children in measurable and meaningful ways, and to evaluate the effectiveness of programs and policies for the children of Maryland.

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