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1.Deaths per 100K (ages 15to19) 2.Deaths per 100K (ages 1to14) 3.Pct of children in poverty 4.Pct ages 16to19 HS dropouts 5.Infant deaths per K live births 6.Pct low birth-weight babies 7.Pct ages 16to19 not attending school and not working 8.Pct children w/out resident parent w/ fulltime all-year employment 9.Pct children living in single parent families 10.Births per K females ages 15to19 10 Kids Count Indicators

the score  i of the ith state is the sum of the scores y ri in r=1,…,m attribute dimensions, each score weighted by a weight  r.,

Specifying the index requires that one address the following three issues: 1.which child welfare measures y r to include; 2.how to scale the measures y r ; 3.and how to specify the weights  r.,

Equal weights ranks

Figure 3: The TDEA frontier TDEA(3) i from Table 3. Higher numbers represent lower child welfare and are given as darker colors in the map.

Figure 4: The TDEA frontier TDEA(1000) i from Table 3.This is the case where weights are for all practical purposes completely unrestricted.

Flexible weights improve scores over fixed weights. Score improved more for states in darker colors.