Head Start / Early Head Start Population Projections Pilot – Follow-Up Survey

OMB Control Number: 0970-0401

Expiration Date: 6/30/2024

Head Start / Early Head Start Population Projections Pilot

Follow-up Survey

Thank you for having participated in the training for the Head Start / Early Head Start Population Projections Pilot. To help us understand how, and to what extent, the population projections tool is being used, we ask that you complete this survey. Even if you have not used the tool, we are interested in hearing from you.

This information is important to us because we would like to improve the tool and potentially make it more widely available to the Head Start community.

This brief survey is voluntary, and all feedback will be kept private. To further protect your privacy please refrain from including personally identifiable information in open-ended responses.

Please note that some survey items use a multi-point scale. If you are taking the survey on your phone, you may have to scroll down to see the entire scale. When finished, click the "Submit" button at the bottom of the final page to record your responses. You are free to move throughout the survey and change responses until you click "Submit".

THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13)

The purpose of this information collection is to improve future service delivery. Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 5 minutes per respondent, including the time for reviewing instructions, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and reviewing the collection of information. This is a voluntary collection of information. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The OMB # is 0970-0401 and the expiration date is 06/30/2024. If you have any comments on this collection of information, please contact Ivana Zuliani at izuliani@donahue.umass.edu.

Background Information

Q1. What is your primary role within your organization?

• CEO or Executive

• Chief Financial Officer (CFO)

• Director (please specify)

  • Program Director of Head Start or Early Head Start program

  • Center Director

  • Site Director

• Assistant Director or Associate Director (please specify)

  • _________________

• Manager or Coordinator (please specify)

  • Fiscal

  • Human Resources

  • Data and Research

  • Other ________________

• Non-Managerial Fiscal/Accounting Staff

• Human Resources Staff

• Other (please specify)

  • Other ________________

Q2. How many years have you served in this role?

• Less than 1 year

• 1 to 4 years

• 5 to 9 years

• 10 or more years

Tool Use

Q3. Have you / your organization used the data from the Tableau Population Projections Tool in your work to date?

 Yes

 No

 Not sure

[Question 4, 5, and 6 will be displayed if respondent indicates “No” to Q3.]

Q4.

Please specify the reason(s) you / your organization has not used the data from the Tableau Populations Projections Tool (check all that apply).

 The tool was too difficult to use.

 The tool was too difficult to access.

 The tool does not contain data that I need.

 I did not have time to use the tool.

 There is no capacity within our organization to use this tool.

 The information in the tool was not immediately relevant to my work.

 Other, please specify: ___________________________________________________

Q5a. Do you / your organization plan to use it in the future?

 Yes

 No

 Not sure

Q5b. [Only display if “yes”] Please briefly describe your plans to use the tool in the future.

Q5c. [Only display if “no or not sure”] Please elaborate.

Q6. Do you have other comments or questions about the tool that you’d like to share?

Tool Use (continued)

[Questions 7-13 will be displayed if respondent indicates “Yes” to Q3.]

Q7. Please share some specifics about your own or your organization’s use of the Tableau Populations Projections Tool.

I / my organization has…	Yes	No	Don’t know/ NA
a. downloaded the data from this tool.
b. exported bar graphs and images.
c. incorporated snapshots and images from this tool into reports and / or presentations
d. shared the data from this tool with staff
e. shared the data with constituent groups (e.g. funders, community members, governing bodies / policy council, etc.)
f. other, please specify: _____________________________

Q8a. Please indicate how you or your organization has used the data from this tool (check all that apply).

I / my organization has used this tool …

 in the development of a community assessment.

 to support planning efforts for future HS/EHS enrollment.

 to anticipate enrollment needs in my organization’s enrollment zone.

 to inform my / our conversations with various constituent groups (e.g., funders, other social service providers, the community, etc.)

 to support my / our work in other ways. Please specify: ________________________________

[This question will only be displayed if respondent selects 4^th choice in Q8a.]

Q8b. Please tell us more about the focus of these conversations.

________________________________________________________________________

Q9. What decisions have these data informed, if any?

_________________________________________________________________________

Q10a. What type of data have you / your organization used for your population projections?

• Zip code

• Town / city

• School district

• Other, please specify: ______________________________

Q10b. Please consider the geographic level of the data from the Tableau Population Projections Tool when responding to this question.

	Strongly agree	Agree	Disagree	Strongly disagree	Don't know / NA
This tool provides estimates at a useful geographic level (e.g., county, municipality, zip code) for my service area

[This question only displayed if respondent indicates “disagree” or “strongly disagree” to Q10a].

Q10c. Considering your/ your organization’s experience with the use of this tool to date, please indicate what additional level of geographic detail would be useful for your population projections?

• Zip code

• Town / city

• School district

• Other, please specify: ______________________________

Q11. Have you / your organization used this tool in ways that you did not anticipate:

 Yes

 No

If yes, please describe how you used this tool: ____________________________

Q12. Other comments or questions about how you are currently using the tool and / or how it could be improved.

HS / EHS Population Projections Pilot – Follow-Up Survey – 02/06/2024 Page 8 of 8