As Program Director for the William Penn Foundation’s Great Learning team, Elliot’s work focuses on improving educational opportunities and outcomes for students in Philadelphia. He works with a team that supports efforts to improve teaching and learning from early childhood through high school. Prior to joining the Foundation in 2013, Elliot was an Associate Commissioner at the U.S. Department of Education, and he spent more than a decade as a researcher and faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania's Graduate School of Education.

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Developing a new resource
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• No comprehensive source of local childcare options
• Multiple sources existed for different types of childcare
• No data on
– capacity
– geographic distribution
– accessibility (e.g. proximity to public transportation)
• No information of how supply and demand were
related
• No sense of the proportion of high quality seats
Need
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• Develop information source for:
– Providers
– Policymakers – elected and appointed officials
– Advocates
– Funders
– Parents
• Use data to inform planning, resource
allocation, and advocacy
Goal
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• Formed stakeholder advisory group
(United Way)
• Included providers, advocates, city and
state officials
• Shared needs/priorities
• Built on PolicyMap platform
Creation
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Data sources
• No comprehensive measure of supply
– Used six different data sources:
• Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Office of Child
Development and Early Learning (OCDEL)
database
• School District of Philadelphia Head Start and
Partner Sites database
• Pennsylvania Department of Education (PDE)
database of licenses and enrollments for Pre-K
• Head Start
• National Establishment Time Series (NETS)
• InfoUSA
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Estimating supply
• Utilize OCDEL data
• Several supply measures (NETS,
InfoUSA) do not contain capacity
– Match up NETS with OCDEL
– Estimate capacity for sites not in OCDEL.
– InfoUSA estimated as a capacity of 5
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14,637
21%
31,134
44%
24,429
35%
High Quality (3-4 STAR) 1-2 STAR No STAR Level
14,637
21%
31,134
44%
24,429
35%
High Quality (3-4 STAR) 1-2 STAR No STAR Level
73,356
73%
27,578
27%
Certified Not Certified
17,864
24%
28,781
39%
26,711
37%
Estimated Supply of Childcare
Total
(100,934)
Certified
(73,356)
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Certified Childcare Center and
Keystone STARS Level
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Estimating Demand
• No direct measure of demand
– Start with basic population and age data
• Decennial Census
– Correct for children accompanying their
parents commuting in / out of their home
block group
• ACS (2013) – estimate percent of workers coming
into Philadelphia, or leaving Philadelphia, with
children under the age of 5
• Literature (e.g., Laughlin, 2013) – estimate percent
of households using childcare
• Longitudinal Employer Household Dynamics (LEHD),
2012 – move people around the city based on
residence / work locations
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– Resident children under 5 (from Nielson, 2015):
105,800
– Estimated number of children accompanying city
resident parents to out-of-city work locations: 9,200
– Estimated number of children accompanying parents
from out-of-the-city to city work locations: 16,400
– Total Estimated Demand: 113,000
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Estimated Total Demand

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Approaches to Estimating the Gap
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Supply
Demand
Hypothetical Relationship Between the
Supply of and Demand for Childcare
More than Expected Level of
Supply
Less than Expected
Level of Supply
Supply/demand
relationship
predicted based
on current supply
Perfect
supply/demand
match
Census block group
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Mapping the Gaps
The map displays the absolute shortage in high-quality (STAR 3 & 4) childcare. Blue areas
have the least shortage; white areas, the greatest shortage.
Areas with an orange overlay are high (35%+) resident poverty places. Note the places with
high poverty and shortage – as well as those where poverty is high but supply is adequate.

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# %
Certified 73,356 72.7% 3,156 3.1%
High Quality (3-4STAR) 17,864 17.7% 3,227 3.2%
1-2STAR 28,781 28.5% -2,353 -2.4%
No STAR Level 26,711 26.5% 2,282 2.3%
Not Certified 27,578 27.3% -3,028 -3.1%
Total Seats 100,934 128
Estimated Supply of Childcare Total Seats % of All Seats Change from 2014
Tracking the trends
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• Informs local universal pre-k effort
• Supports increases in local ECE funding
– Federal grant competitions (e.g., EHS childcare
partnership, HS renewal)
– Other grant competitions (e.g., PNC Grow Up Great)
• Inform investments in libraries, parks, playgrounds
• Stimulate planning related to the ECE – K12 connection
• Resource for parent/caregiver outreach
• Informs other WPF investments
– Fund for Quality; program expansion
– Success by 6; technical assistance
Demonstrated uses
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Contact Information
Elliot Weinbaum
Elliot Weinbaum, Program Director, William Penn Foundation
– eweinbaum@williampennfoundation.org
Emily Dowdall, Chief of Development and Policy Implementation,
Reinvestment Fund
– Emily.Dowdall@reinvestment.com
Website: www.childcaremap.org

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