Other Resources

Interactive data tools

• 50-State Child Care Cost Model, Prenatal to Five Fiscal Strategies
• Child Care and Early Learning: Explore State Data: Minnesota, Center for American Progress, data trends on child care and early learning, including workforce, Head Start program access, and exclusionary discipline policies
• Child Care Technical Assistance Network Data Explorer and State Profiles
• Child Opportunity Index (COI) 3.0, diversitydatakids.org
• Congressional District Health Dashboard, NYU Langone Health, 2023
• CUSP Public - Child Universal Success Platform (CUSP) is a free tool to locate child population, demographic, and program eligibility data for all U.S. states and counties, 3Si
• Easy Access to Juvenile Populations (EZAPOP), National Center for Juvenile Justice
• Investments in Health Care, Minnesota Department of Human Services
• IPUMS, University of Minnesota
• Kids Count Data Book Interactive - Minnesota
• Kids Count Data Center-Minnesota, Annie E. Casey Foundation
• Minnesota Child Care Data Center, Child Care Aware of America, 2020
• Minnesota Public Health Data Access Portal, Minnesota Department of Health
• Minnesota's Homeless Management Information System (HMIS)
• Minnesota Student Survey, Minnesota Department of Education
• National Outcome Measures, Health Resources & Services Administration - Maternal and Child Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

Maps

• Child Care Gaps Assessment, Buffett Early Childhood Institute at University of Nebraska
• Mapping Access to Child Care for Minnesota Families, University of Minnesota
• Minnesota Children's Fiscal Map, Minnesota Management and Budget (MMB)
• National Database of Childcare Prices, U.S Department of Labor Women's Bureau, 2008-2018
• State of Early Childhood Data Systems Interactive Map, Child Trends 2018

Profiles and roadmaps

• Minnesota Child Care Assistance Program: State Fiscal Year 2025 Family Profile, Minnesota Department of Human Services, January 2026
• Minnesota Compass Build Your Own Profile, data tool, Wilder Research
• Minnesota Early Childhood Profile, National Center for Children in Poverty, 2024
• Prenatal-to-3 Policy Impact Center Roadmap, Minnesota, 2025
• Profile of State Data Capacity in 2019 and 2020: Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems (SLDS) Survey Descriptive Statistics, National Center for Education Statistics at Institute of Education Sciences, August 2023
• A Roadmap for Action: Addressing Minnesota's Achievement Gaps and Quality Early Care & Education Shortage, Early Care and Education Crisis Work Group Consensus Recommendations, December 2018
• A Roadmap for Transformational Change in Minnesota Education, Governor's Education Roundtable, 2020
• Think Babies State Fact Sheets—Minnesota, Food Research & Action Center (FRAC), 2019

Program resources

• Adolescent Health Data Book, Minnesota Department of Health, August 2025
• Centering Racial Equity Throughout Data Integration Toolkit, Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy, University of Pennsylvania, May 2020
• Community Health Assessment and Planning Cycle: Handbook for Local Public Health, Minnesota Department of Health, June 2023
• Early Childhood Indicators of Progress: Minnesota's Early Learning Standards
• Early Childhood Longitudinal Studies (ECLS) Program, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics
• Early Childhood Program Administration Wiki: Resources, Training, Best Practices, Sharing, Minnesota Department of Education
• Help Me Connect, Minnesota's Departments of Children, Youth, and Families; Education; Health; and Human Services
• MDH Blood Lead Level Guidelines, Minnesota Department of Health, February 2025
• Minnesota Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (Minnesota PRAMS), Minnesota Department of Health and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

Reports and research

• CEDS Connect: Minnesota Risk and Reach Report, Common Education Data Standards (CEDS), February 2023
• Child Care in Rural Minnesota After 2020, Center for Rural Policy and Development, February 2021
• Early Care and Education Workforce Study, Wilder Research, December 2023
• Early Childhood Education Subnetwork Research Repository, National Network of Education Research-Practice Partnerships (NNERPP)
• Early Learning Scholarships Use in Minnesota, SFY2024, Minnesota Department of Children, Youth, and Families, March 2025
• English Learner Education in Minnesota, 2020-21 Report, Minnesota Department of Education, May 2021
• Great Start for All Minnesota Children Task Force final report, February 2023
• Minnesota Early Childhood Risk and Reach, Wilder Research
• Minnesota Early Childhood Strategic Refresh: An Updated Cross-System Plan for 2023 and Beyond, School Readiness Consulting, March 2023
• Minnesota’s Early Childhood Workforce: Making a Difference in the Early Years, State of Minnesota, March 2024
• Minnesota Homeless Study, Wilder Research
• Minnesota Statewide Health Assessment, Minnesota Department of Health and Healthy Minnesota Partnership, April 2024
• Minnesota Services and Supports for Families with Young Children, Minnesota Children's Cabinet, January 2018
• Underenrollment in School-Based Early Learning Programs and Kindergarten, Minnesota Department of Education, Early Learning Services, 2021

Yearbooks

• Early Childhood Workforce Index, Center for the Study of Child Care Employment, UC Berkeley, 2024
• Home Visiting Yearbook, National Home Visiting Resource Center, 2025
• State of America's Children, Children's Defense Fund, 2023
• State of Babies Yearbook, Zero to Three
• State(s) of Head Start, NIEER
• State of Preschool Yearbooks, NIEER
• State of the States, The DaSy Center, 2023 - Minnesota Fact Sheet