The Wisconsin Child Care Research Partnership announces a new source for early care and education data available to public policy makers, grant writers, city/county planners, and the general public so they can make informed decisions. Findings from previous research data can be found on our publications page. To create your own reports, you can now visit the first release of statewide child care and other program data at the Early Care and Education Website.

The Early Care and Education Website allows you to view and print reports on Wisconsin's regulated child care, Head Start, public four-year-old kindergarten (4K) programs, and census data. You can view these reports in two ways. First, you may view them pictorially on a dynamic map. Secondly, you may view early care and education (ECE) data numerically, using standard or custom reports. These reports allow you to summarize ECE data by the geographical region of your choosing: county, school district, or municipality.

We welcome your feedback (jason.bierbrauer@uwex.edu) on this new set of ECE data (which will be updated quarterly). We acknowledge key partners for this website, including the UW-Madison/UW-Extension Applied Population Lab, the Wisconsin Department of Workforce Development, and the Wisconsin Department of Health and Family Services.

Child Care Web Mapping Project - Handout (PDF)