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Twenty-one percent of children in
Mississippi were without health
insurance in 2005.
(U.S. Census Bureau)

A primary goal of MS KIDS COUNT is to provide accurate and relevant data about Mississippi’s children and the issues they face. This section contains a snapshot of current data and research about the health, education, well-being and safety of children. For more complete information, trend data, graphs, and comparisons to others states, please visit the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s KIDS COUNT Web site. There you will find extensive data at the state and community levels (counties and school districts), as well as Census data.
Go to: http://www.aecf.org/MajorInitiatives/KIDSCOUNT.aspx.
Please check back to this section as we expand its contents and add original research.