Respected
61% of these staff think the Data Book is respected by people with different political views.
In 2007, 151 senior Congressional staff members were asked about the Casey Foundation and KIDS COUNT, a Casey project providing annual data on national and state-by-state indicators of child well-being. The findings from that survey are provided in this report.
Over 75% of staff familiar with the Data Book think it is clear, understandable, credible, relevant to legislators and useful.
58% of those familiar with the KIDS COUNT Data Book use it to do background research on an issue.
