Given the influence of neighborhoods on children's healthy development, it is very important to know where children live in relation to neighborhood opportunity and whether all children have equal access to neighborhood conditions and resources that help them thrive. The Child Opportunity Index allows us to answer these important questions.
To summarize inequities in children's access to opportunity, we calculate Child Opportunity Scores by racial/ethnic group for each metro area. The score for a given racial/ethnic group represents the score of the neighborhood experienced by the typical (median) child of that group.
Issue Areas
- Children and Youth
- Race and Ethnicity
Publishers
- Institute for Child, Youth & Family Policy (ICYFP), Heller School For Social Policy & Management at Brandeis University
Funder
- W.K. Kellogg Foundation
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Doc Type
- Dataset
- Interactive Resource
Language
- English
Geography
- North America / United States
Copyright
- Copyright 2019 by Institute for Child, Youth and Family Policy at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. All rights reserved.