Analysis of the Capabilities of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS) to support Baseline Distinct Counts of Select Data Sets to support the Establishment of a Virginia Early Childhood Integrated Data System (ECIDS)

Abstract

The goal of this project was to ascertain the capabilities of the Virginia Longitudinal Data System (VLDS) to support the integration of data to generate a distinct count of children birth to five served by one or more early childhood programs and/or services, as a foundational metric for a range of future early childhood policy and programmatic analyses and uses.