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Maps of Child Well-Being in Georgia
The
Georgia 2005 KIDS
COUNT State Summary provides a demographic profile of Georgia's
children, accompanied by maps and graphs that show racial and ethnic
disparities among children for specific indicators of well-being.
Maps
are color-coded and provide a picture of our children living in
different geographic regions statewide, ranked by an indicator.
Where
Georgia's Children Live
Georgia's Children Living in Poverty
Children
At Risk: Child Poverty, High School Graduation
and Composite Teen Births
Disconnected
Youth
Educational
Achievement
Healthy
Start
Healthy
Start
Prenatal
Care. The Healthy Start Index was 71.4% for 2003. For black
and Hispanic mothers, the overall Healthy Start Index was 66.6%
and 64.8%, respectively. White mothers have a relatively higher
Healthy Start Index at 75.4%.
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Birthweight.
In
2003 there were 12,205 infants born at low birthweights of less
than 5.5 pounds. A black infant is almost twice as likely to be
low birthweight as a white infant.
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Infant
mortality. The infant mortality rate for black infants has remained
above 13 per 1,000 for ten years. The highest rate for white infants
was 6.7 per 1,000 in 1994. The highest black infant death rates
were in rural counties.
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Educational
status of mothers. In
2003, 23.5% of mothers who gave birth had less than a high school
education.
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Child
abuse and neglect. In
2003, the rate of substantiated child abuse and neglect was 21.2
per 1,000, up slightly from 19.9 per 1,000 in 2002.
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