Data Sources Bookmark

Demographic
 
Early Childhood
  • Child Care Facilities
  • Child Care Market Rates
  • Child Stats.Gov: This website offers easy access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health.
  • NAEYC Accredited Facilities: maintains a list of programs that are currently accredited to assist individuals in finding NAEYC-accredited programs in their area.  This list is updated with new accreditation decisions on the fifth (5th) day of every month. 
  • NAFCC Accredited Facilities: maintains a list of programs that are currently accredited to assist individuals in finding NAFCC-accredited programs in their area. 
  • North Carolina Action for Children: (formerly the North Carolina Child Advocacy Institute) has a web site that provides county-level information on child health and well-being. Areas covered include demographics, physical well-being, intellectual well-being, social well-being, and economic wellbeing. Extensive county-level data are available in their North Carolina Children's Index County Data Cards which include more than 75 indicators of child and youth well-being. They also provide links to CLIKS (Community-Level Information on Kids) which allows users to access maps and tables containing data at both state and county levels.
 

Economic Resources

  • Department of Commerce: has a web site that contains a variety of useful data for each county in the state. From the main page select “NC Statistics” and click on “ County Profiles ” to access economic data from the Economic Development Information System (EDIS). Data can be downloaded into Excel.
  • Department of Transportation: has a web site with information on public transit services for counties and cities across North Carolina . A scroll-down list is provided to choose the geographic area you are interested in. This is a sub-page of the general North Carolina DOT web site.
  • Employment Security Commission:  ESC collects, organizes and disseminates information about the operation of the labor market, such as worker availability, long range trends in employment, occupational wage rates and industry projections 
    • Labor Market Information: have links to labor force statistics, occupational information such as employment and wages, industry information, as well as information access tools and links to statistical sources.
    • Information Access Tools section, they have several web query systems, such as WebSARAS , NC Profile, Workforce-in-Depth, and County Profile, which provide labor and employment information for counties and other geographic areas of the state.
  • The North Carolina Rural Economic Development Center serves as a resource for rural people and communities. The center serves the state's 85 rural counties, with a special focus on individuals with low to moderate incomes and communities with limited resources. Their web site hosts a “Rural Data Bank” which includes County Profiles as well as the ability to perform custom data searches.
  • Military Pay Scale
  • National Median Family Income
 

Education
 

Health

  • Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research has county-level data on their web site, especially in relation to health manpower. From the main page, click on "Data Avaliable" and then "North Carolina Health Professions Data System." Then click on "Download Data" and there are county-level tables for different categories of health manpower. Especially useful are the "State and County Profiles ," which can be accessed on the left-hand side of this page.
  • Childhood Lead Surveillance data are maintained in the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, Environmental Health Services Section. North Carolina state law requires all laboratories doing business in North Carolina to report all positive blood lead test results for children less than six years of age. The database includes blood lead screening and follow-up information as well as environmental follow-up information. From the Child Lead Poisoning web page, go to Surveillance Tables for access to lead screening data.
  • Division of Mental Health, Developmental Disabilities, and Substance Abuse Services (MHDDSAS) in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services collects statistics from state-operated mental health facilities across the state. Annual reports, containing facility and county-level information, are available on community mental health centers, state psychiatric hospitals, alcohol and drug treatment centers, mental retardation centers, and other mental health facilities. To view their reports, from the main page, go to Statistics and Publications.
  • Division of Medical Assistance in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services is the state Medicaid agency in North Carolina . They produce an annual report with some county-level data called Medicaid in North Carolina Annual Report. Many of their reports are now available on their web site. From their main page, go to Publications to view their annual report, as well as additional Medicaid data and information.
  • Division of Social Services in the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services collects information in a number of human services areas, including child abuse and child protective services, Food Stamps, and the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program. To view their statistical reports, from their main page, click on “Statistics and Reviews.” You can then choose to select data regarding Child Welfare, Child Support, Food Stamp Program, or Work First.
  • NC Council for Women/Domestic Violence Commission compiles information on domestic violence, sexual assault, and rape prevention programs. Their web site provides a variety of county-level data on domestic violence, including the number of calls, the number of clients served, education/training, and shelter services use.
  • NC Pregnancy Nutrition Surveillance System (PNSS) describes the prevalence of various infant health indicators for infants born to mothers participating in public health programs. Data from the NC Pediatric Nutrition Surveillance System (PedNSS) can be used to monitor the prevalence of overweight among children participating in public health programs. NC-NPASS reports may not be representative of the population as a whole since it is comprised of data collected on children seen in NC Public Health sponsored Women, Infants and Children (WIC) and child health clinics and some school-based health centers.
  • NC State Center for Health Statistics: This site describes the programs and services of the State Center , and offers a plethora of county level data that can assist communities in performing their assessment.
  • Odum Institute for Research in Social Science: at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill provides a variety of public opinion poll and other data through their web site. See especially the Data Archive section where under Data Holdings you will find North Carolina data. Also accessible from the Data Archives section are NC Vital Statistics data, where complete public use data files for births, deaths, and other vital events can be downloaded for further analysis. Full documentation of these files is provided. Also, much of the other data through this site can be downloaded into a variety of file formats. Though the data from this site are primarily for the state and the nation as a whole, some county-level information is available.
 

Municipalities in Cumberland County

 

State Resources

  • State of North Carolina: There are links to many other state agencies from this North Carolina home page, and many of these state agency web sites have links to other web sites related to their topic area.
 

For more information please contact

Linda Blanton
Director of Planning, Development and Communications
867-9700 ext 2230
lblanton@ccpfc.org
 
     
 
 

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