Internet-based Children's Data Users Perceptions of KIDS COUNT

The [Child Trends] DataBank is visited by over 40,000 users per month including many in the fields of government and policy, advocacy, academia and research. Members of the DataBank listserv were felt to be representative of an important set of potential users of KIDS COUNT products: those who look to the Internet for data on children and youth.

A total of 808 people responded over two weeks for a response rate of 12 percent, which is relatively high for this type of survey. Respondents were from every state except Delaware and Mississippi.