Data Collection and Research

Community Profiles
This summer (2010) EQUIP released the results of the 2009 Community Profiles surveys.  In this latest round EQUIP partnered with Child Care Choices of Boston to reach out to 100% of licensed center-based and Head Start programs, family child care homes and public schools in Boston.  The data was presented at a Data Forum at the Boston Children's Museum on June 29, 2010.  The Powerpoint slide presentation, full-color executive summary, and report on the 2009 Community Profiles surveys are all available on our website.  Just click on Community Profiles to get there.   Below are the response rates to the surveys.

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Data and Research Team
(DART)
EQUIP co-facilitates the Data and Research Team (DART) for the Thrive in 5 initiative, a public-private partnership to get the city working together to promote school readiness by age five and to prevent the achievement gap from occurring.  

Boston Quality Inventory

Boston EQUIP is working with Wellesley Centers for Women to update the fact-based understanding of the quality of Boston’s community-based early care and education centers and family child care.  These data, coupled with the unique information supplied through the Community Profiles surveys, will provide a comprehensive picture of Boston’s early care and education to improve the strength, quality, and effectiveness of the field serving the young children of Boston.  To view the previous Boston Quality Inventories, please click here.

2009 Community Profiles

Boston EQUIP is currently in the process of analyzing the latest round of community profile surveys.  EQUIP has partnered with Child Care Choices of Boston to reach out to 100% of licensed center-based and Head Start programs, family child care homes and public schools in Boston.

Featured Publications

Education Barriers and Supports for the Early Care and Education Workforce
This report describes the supports and barriers to post-secondary education in the voices of Boston's early care and education workforce members themselves.

Young Children's Well Being

This expanded data section reaches beyond early care and education – touching other important areas of Boston’s young children’s lives – including data on child poverty rates, health, food and housing security...