Kids Count Data Center

Definitions: Fourth grade public school students’ reading achievement levels, as measured and defined by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) reading test. For a more detailed description of achievement levels see: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/Reading/achieveall.asp. Public schools include charter schools and exclude Bureau of Indian Education schools and Department of Defense Education Activity schools. More...

Data Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).  Available online at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/.

Footnotes: Updated November 2011.
S – NAEP reporting standards not met. N.A. – Data not available. A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at 4th Grade Reading Achievement Levels.

Definitions: 8th grade public school students’ mathematics achievement levels, as measured and defined by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). For a more detailed description of achievement levels see: http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/Mathematics/achieveall.asp. Public schools include charter schools and exclude Bureau of Indian Education schools and Department of Defense Education Activity schools. More...

Data Source: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Available online at http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard. 

Footnotes: Updated November 2011.
S – NAEP reporting standards not met. N.A. – Data not available. A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at 8th grade math achievement levels.

Definitions: The birth rate is the number of births to females 15-19 years old per 1,000 of the female population of 15-19 years old.

Source: NM Department of Health Family Planning Program, 2006-2010 NM DOH Family Planning Program and NM Teen Pregnancy Coalition, Challenge 2010, 2010 Update.  NM Department of Health, IBIS Data Center. NM Birth Data, Adolescent Births, 2010: http://ibis.health.state.nm.us/query/result/birth/AdolBirthCnty/AdolBirth15-19.html.

Data Source: New Mexico Department of Health, Office of Vital Records and Health Statistics

Footnotes: Rates based on fewer than 20 events may be statistically unreliable and should be interpreted with caution.

Definitions: Source: NM Department of Health, NM Selected Health Statistics Annual Report, 2008. Data from 2009 from the NM Department of Health, NM Selected Health Statistics Annual Report, 2009, retrieved from:
http://nmhealth.org/VitRecHealthStats/reports/2009_AR.pdf

Read as: Of all births in New Mexico (in particular year), 12% of them were to mothers who received no or little prenatal care.

Definitions: Definition: Areas of concentrated poverty are those census tracts/areas with poverty rates of 30% or more. This is a commonly used threshold that lies between the starting point and leveling off point for negative neighborhood effects.

Source: U.S. Census, American Community Survey, 2006-2010 from data analysis prepared by the Population Reference Bureau.

Note: Estimates are subject to both sampling and non-sampling error.  

Definitions: Source: Monthly All Children Eligibility Report, Year/Month Distribution by County: Children Under 21 Enrolled in Medicaid, Including retroactive and late reported eligibility, NM CYFD

Data Source: New Mexico Human Services Department (data as of April 5, 2009).

Footnotes: There were 5,652 Medicaid recipients under 21 yeas old for whom a county of residence was unknown in 2008. 

Definitions: The share of children living in households where more than 30 percent of the monthly income was spent on rent, mortgage payments, taxes, insurance, and/or related expenses. The 30 percent threshold for housing costs is based on research on affordable housing by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development (HUD). According to HUD, households that must allocate more than 30 percent of their income to housing expenses are less likely to have enough resources for food, clothing, medical care or other needs.
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Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2005 through 2011 American Community Survey. Beginning in January 2005, the U.S. Census Bureau expanded the ACS sample to 3 million households (full implementation), and in January 2006 the ACS included group quarters. The ACS, fully implemented, is designed to provide annually updated social, economic, and housing data for states and communities. (Such local-area data have traditionally been collected once every ten years in the long form of the decennial census.) More...

Footnotes: Updated November 2012.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points. N.A. – Data not available.
Data are provided for the 50 most populous cities according to the most recent Census counts.  Cities for which data is collected may change over time.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at
Children in households that spend more than 30 percent of their income on housing.