Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS Study) Center Location Data, United States, 2017-2018 (ICPSR 39214)
Version Date: Mar 13, 2025 View help for published
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United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39214.v1
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To supplement the Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Study (MSHS) main data files (Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Study, United States, 2017-2018 (ICPSR 37348)) a new data file is available to users on the Virtual Data Enclave. This file contains information on the location of centers (region, state, zip code, and operational period) in the MSHS Study. The MSHS Study was conducted by Abt Associates and its partners--The Catholic University of America and Westat--under contract to the Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
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ZIP Code
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Access to these data requires an application and a signed Restricted Data Use Agreement. Details, including the Restricted Data Use Agreement, are provided via the online application and email sent to the requestor after a request is initiated.
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The purpose of the study was to provide information about the center location data file, which contains data on region, state, zip code, and operational period.
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This study involved two separate surveys.
- All program directors providing center-based services received the Program Director Survey.
- Center directors from a random selection of 252 centers operated by those programs across five geographic regions covering the 48 contiguous U.S. states (East, Midwest, Northwest, Southeast, and California/Southwest) received the Center Director Survey.
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The Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Study (MSHS) provides information about MSHS children and their families, classrooms, centers, and programs. There are two samples for the study. The first sample includes the programs and centers whose directors were sent a survey. All program directors providing center-based services received a survey, as well as a random selection of 252 center directors operated by those programs across five geographic regions covering the 48 contiguous U.S. states (East, Midwest, Northwest, Southeast, and California/Southwest). The study team worked to ensure that centers of different sizes were represented within each region and each program. The second sample includes those centers that the study team visited to collect information from classrooms, teachers, assistant teachers, families, and children.
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All Migrant and Seasonal Head Start (MSHS) programs (grantees and delegate agencies that operated as independent administrative organizations) in the 48 contiguous U.S. states providing center-based services to children and families. The universe was comprised of 36 MSHS programs and 402 MSHS centers.
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2025-03-13
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2025-03-13 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
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