The Foundation for Child Development has a long history of support for reporting on the condition of America's children.  The Child Well-Being Index (CWI) continues that tradition.  During FCD's centennial year, the board approved a grant to examine the feasibility of developing an index that reflected the well-being of America's children.  The aim was to create a tool something like the Consumer Price Index that would help policymakers and the public monitor how well children were doing. 

Dr. Kenneth Land, an accomplished demographer at Duke University who had been deeply involved in quality of life studies, determined that such an Index could be constructed.  The CWI was released publicly for the first time in 2004.  It represents the foundation's commitment to shining a light on the condition of America's children.

FCD will continue to support the annual updating and public release of the CWI through 2017.

What Is the FCD Child Well-Being Index (CWI)?

• Introduction to the CWI
• How is the CWI Constructed?
• Annual Releases of the CWI
• Critical Reviews of the CWI
• Related Studies