Illinois Early Childhood Asset Map

Data Sources on Early Childhood Services: National

U.S. Census Bureau’s America’s Fact Finder

http://www.factfinder.census.gov

The Census Bureau’s Web site is a rich source of easy-to-access statistics on a wide range of demographics and community information. The America’s Fact Finder server provides detailed community fact sheets that can be customized to provide information on a county, township, city, or even zip code.

From the Fact Finder home page, click on “Fact Sheet” and enter the geographic area for which you need information. (Note: You may have to break down your proposed service area into smaller units, such as townships or zip code areas, to find statistics for all of the areas you are interested in.) The fact sheet will provide information on:

You can also pull up a map of your community that details where in the community poverty rates are highest, education levels are lowest, or non-English speaking homes are most common.

More detailed information is available by returning to the Fact Finder home page and clicking on “People.” First enter the geographic area you need information for, as you did for the fact sheet. A list of available tables for that geographic area will appear. Use the following tables to obtain the following information:

To find:

Click on:

Number of children by age (e.g., 3-yr-olds)

Single years of Age Under 30 Years and Sex

Details about education levels of adults in community (e.g., # with less than 9 th grade education)

Educational Attainment

Estimate of school drop-out rate

Percent of persons 16 to 19 years not enrolled in school and not a high school graduate

Details about families who speak a language other than English at home

Ability to Speak English

Poverty rate for families with children under age 5

Poverty status-Families

Single-mother families with children under 5

Poverty status-Families

Child Trends Databank

http://www.childtrendsdatabank.org/

A “one-stop-shop” for the latest national trends and research on 100 key indicators of child and youth well-being, with new indicators added each month. Early childhood indicators include Individualized Education Plans, Repeating a Grade, Head Start, and Teen Births. Includes:

Kids Count State-Level Data Online

http://www.kidscount.org/datacenter/index.jsp

The Kids Count database contains state-level data for over 100 measures of child well-being, including all the measures regularly used in the popular “KIDS COUNT Data Book” and “ The Right Start for America's Newborns.” This easy-to-use, powerful online database allows you to generate custom reports for a geographic area (Profiles) or to compare geographic areas on a topic (Ranking, Maps, and Line Graphs).

NIEER’s The State of Preschool: 2006 State Profiles

http://nieer.org/yearbook/states/

NIEER’s Yearbook contains state data, interactive data sets, and downloadable graphs, as well as information on quality standards, state-funded PreK, and Head Start. State profiles and a detailed methodology discussion are also included.

NCCIC’s State Profiles

http://nccic.org/statedata/statepro/index.html

Includes demographic information about the children, families and child care in each state, as well as contact information for different state agencies involved in child care. The profiles also contain links to additional state and national resources.

NCCIC Child Care Database

http://nccic.org/IMS/Search.asp

Provides information on child care in U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Information is provided in the general categories of:

Data is provided for the latest year for which information is available. The latest year may be different for different categories of data.

Education Commission of the States' Online Interactive Pre-kindergarten Database

http://ecs.org/clearinghouse/27/24/2724.htm

Contains state profiles, state comparisons, and 50 state reports on pre-kindergarten efforts. Included are:

NCCP State Profiles

http://www.nccp.org/profiles/

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) now provides 2006 poverty statistics in its state profiles on demographics (poverty and all children and young children), issue areas (for early childhood, issue areas include health and nutrition, early care and education, parenting and economic supports; for family economic security, issue areas include economic security policy choices and state economic context), and policy (including CCDF subsidies, federal child and dependent credit, child support enforcement, family and medical leave, federal EITC, food stamps, Head Start, marriage-related policies, minimum wage standards, public health insurance for children, public health insurance for parents, Section 8 housing vouchers, state income taxes and credits, TANF cash assistance, and unemployment insurance).