Focus of This E.D. TAB

This E.D. TAB provides descriptive information about children born in the United States in 2001. It presents information on certain child and family characteristics, on children's mental and physical skills, on children's first experiences in child care, and on the fathers of these children. The report profiles data from a nationally representative sample of children at about 9 months of age both overall, and for various subgroups (i.e., male and female, children from different racial/ethnic groups, and children living in different types of families).

The information in this report is presented in four sections: (1) characteristics of the children and their families; (2) children's early mental and physical skills; (3) children's first experiences in child care; and (4) the fathers of these children. The topics selected for this initial release of baseline information are only a small sampling of the types of questions that can be addressed.

Appendixes A and B provide technical documentation for the findings presented here, as well as information about how to obtain these data.