Data Quality Campaign Early Childhood Data Collaborative

State-by-State Analysis

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Pennsylvania

Linkages that allow policymakers to track the progress of children over time, as well as better understand relationships among ECE programs and other programs that influence child development.

State is able to connect individual child-level data from any early care and education data system to the same child data in other agencies' and programs databases that are outside the ECE databases.

K-12Social ServicesHealth
Subsidized Child CareNYN
Early InterventionYYY
Early Childhood Special EducationYYY
State Pre-KYYN
State-Funded Head StartYYN

National Comparison

State links child-level data with K-12 and other key data systems Export JPG

OrganizationLink to k-12Link to healthLink to social services
Subsidized Child Care42129
Early Intervention17239
Early Childhood Special Education34106
State Pre-K*2868
State-Funded Head Start*712

*Not every state administers state pre-K or state-funded Head Start/Early Head Start programs