The Early Childhood Atlas facilitates spatial analysis in early childhood services research for the promotion of greater quality and accessibility of early care and education.

The Atlas team collects and geocodes federal, state and nongovernmental datasets about early childhood services. The team maintains the datasets in an offline relational database for use in special projects such as child care assessment in disaster response.

The Atlas team integrates selected data elements from the datasets into its online mapmaking and reporting tools for use by the public. The team also produces custom maps of selected early childhood services indicators and maintains them in its online archive for use by the public.