Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics America’s Young Adults: Special Issue, 2014 Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics America’s Young Adults: Special Issue, 2014 Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics The Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics was founded in 1994. Executive Order No. 13045 formally established the Forum in April 1997 to foster coordination and collaboration in the collection and reporting of Federal data on children and families. Agencies that are members of the Forum as of Spring 2014 are listed below. Department of Agriculture Office of Adolescent Health Economic Research Service http://www.hhs.gov/ash/oah/ http://www.ers.usda.gov Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Department of Commerce Administration U.S. Census Bureau http://www.samhsa.gov http://www.census.gov Department of Housing and Urban Development Department of Defense Office of Policy Development and Research Office of the Deputynder U Secretary of Defense http://www.huduser.org Military Community and Family Policy Department of Justice http://prhome.defense.gov/rfm/mcfp Bureau of Justice Statistics Department of Education http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs National Center for Education Statistics National Institute of Justice http://nces.ed.gov http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij Department of Health and Human Services Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Administration for Children and Families http://www.ojjdp.gov/ http://www.acf.hhs.gov Department of Labor Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.ahrq.gov http://www.bls.gov Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Women’s Bureau Health and Human Development http://www.dol.gov/wb http://www.nichd.nih.gov Department of Transportation Maternal and Child Health Bureau http://www.mchb.hrsa.gov National Highway Traffic Safety Administration http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs Environmental Protection Agency Office of Children’s Health Protection National Institute of Mental Health http://www.epa.gov/children/ http://www.nimh.nih.gov Office of Management and Budget Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Statistical and Science Policy Office http://aspe.hhs.gov http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/inforeg_statpolicy Recommended citation: Federal Interagency Forum on Child and Family Statistics. America’s Young Adults: Special Issue, 2014. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. This report was printed by the U.S. Government Printing Office in cooperation with the National Center for Health Statistics, July 2014. Single copies are available through the Health Resources and Services Administration Information Center while supplies last: P.O. Box 2910, Merrifield, VA 22116; Toll-Free Lines: 1-888-Ask-HRSA(4772), TTY: 1-877-4TY-HRSA; Fax: 703-821-2098; E-mail: [email protected]. This report is also available on the World Wide Web: http://childstats.gov. Table of Contents Foreword ......................................................................................................................................................................v Acknowledgments ........................................................................................................................................................v Background .................................................................................................................................................................vi Conceptual Framework ...............................................................................................................................................vi Structure of the Report ...............................................................................................................................................vii Statistical Significance ................................................................................................................................................vii Report Coverage and Methods ...................................................................................................................................vii Indicator Criteria ......................................................................................................................................................viii For Further Information ............................................................................................................................................viii Highlights .................................................................................................................................................................viii Data Sources ................................................................................................................................................................x Demographic Context ................................................................................................................................................xii Demographics ...............................................................................................................................1 Demographic Characteristics ........................................................................................................................................2 Group Quarters ............................................................................................................................................................3 Military Participation ...................................................................................................................................................4 Imprisonment Rates .....................................................................................................................................................5 Education ......................................................................................................................................7 Educational Attainment ...............................................................................................................................................8 Enrollment Rates ..........................................................................................................................................................9 College Costs and Indebtedness .................................................................................................................................10 Neither Enrolled in School Nor Working ...................................................................................................................12 Economic Circumstances...............................................................................................................15 Labor Force ................................................................................................................................................................16 Median Earnings ........................................................................................................................................................17 Housing Problems ......................................................................................................................................................19 Health Insurance ........................................................................................................................................................20 Family Formation .........................................................................................................................21 Living Arrangements ..................................................................................................................................................22 Births to Young Adult Women ...................................................................................................................................23 For further information, visit http://childstats.gov iii Table of Contents (cont.) Civic, Social, and Personal Behavior .............................................................................................25 Voting ........................................................................................................................................................................26 Time Use ....................................................................................................................................................................27 Leisure-Time Physical Activity ...................................................................................................................................28 Cigarette Smoking ......................................................................................................................................................29 Contraception ............................................................................................................................................................30 Health and Safety ........................................................................................................................31 Usual Source of Health Care ......................................................................................................................................32 Obesity ......................................................................................................................................................................33 Substance