How Immigrant Parents View Their Kids' Health and Well Being

Oct. 22, 2008

Contact: Andy Krackov, senior director of public information, at (650) 736-0677 or andy.krackov@lpfch.org, if you have any questions.

Approximately half of California's children have an immigrant parent, yet data on children of immigrants is scarce. Now, Kidsdata.org offers 24 new indicators of immigrant parents' views about the well being of their children.

The indicators, drawn from Kidsdata's Bay Area Parent Poll, look at immigrant parents' perceptions on a range of issues influencing their children's health, including: education, child stress, concern about depression, ability to meet basic needs, dental care and health care.

These new indicators include responses from immigrant parents in six Bay Area counties (Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Francisco, San Mateo and Santa Clara).You can compare the responses of immigrant and non-immigrant parents and, for some issues, examine differences by income level and region of origin in how immigrant parents rate their children's well being.

Kidsdata is a wide-ranging, online clearinghouse of information about the health and well being of Bay Area children, provided by the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health.