Data and Research

Featured Initiatives and Resources:

NC DCDEE Child Care Statistical Report

A monthly overview compiling child care licensing data for all types of care, subsidized child care expenditures, and waiting list information statewide. The summary report is designed to provide a high level review of the NC Division of Child Development and Early Education regulatory and subsidy information on a monthly basis.

Child Care Statistical Report

The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health

Access child data on topics including physical and mental health, access to quality health care, and the child’s family, neighborhood, school, and social context. Data is made easily accessible to parents, researchers, community health providers and anyone interested in maternal and child health.

National Survey of Children’s Health

NC Child

NC Child builds a strong North Carolina by advancing public policies to ensure all children, regardless of race, ethnicity, or place of birth, have the opportunity to achieve their full potential. NC Child produces multiple data products each year that track the health and well-being of North Carolina’s children.

Child Health Report Card 2021

Additional Resources

• Child Trends
  The nation’s leading nonprofit research organization focused on improving the lives and prospects of children, youth, and their families. Child Trends conducts rigorous research, and provides analyses and clear communications to improve public policies and interventions that serve children and families.
• Early Childhood Action Plan Data 
  Resources that help tell the story of young children from birth through age eight across the state, and inform how to take action for kids and families in North Carolina.
• National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS)
  Data on consumer product-related injuries occurring in the United States.
• National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES)
  NHANES is a program of studies designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States.
• National Survey of Children’s Health
  The NSCH examines the physical and emotional health of children ages 0-17 years of age. Special emphasis is placed on factors related to the well-being of children.
• Web-based Injury Statistics Query and Reporting System
  CDC’s WISQARS™ is an interactive, online database that provides fatal and nonfatal injury, violent death, and cost of injury data from a variety of trusted sources.