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Improving Systems, Practices, and Outcomes

Family Outcomes Calculators and Graphing Templates

Calculators

Family Outcomes Year-to-Year Meaningful Differences Calculator for States (2016)

Look at the statistical significance of change in your state's family outcomes data from year-to-year and compare local performance to the state's performance. This calculator computes the 90% confidence interval around values. Confidence intervals can be used to understand the precision of values; however, values with very large confidence intervals (more than ±5%) should be interpreted with caution.

Response Rate and Representativeness Calculator (2024)

Use this tool to compute response rates for your state's family outcomes survey data and determine if the surveys you received are representative of the target population. The calculator uses a statistical formula to determine if two percentages (percentage of surveys received versus percentage of families in target population) should be considered different from each other. Enter the values by subgroup and the calculator will compute the statistical significance of the difference between the two percentages and highlight significant differences. Instructions about how to enter data into the calculator appear at the top of each tab.

This new version includes important new features, improved layout, and enhanced calculations! For more information, contact: nicholas.ortiz@sri.com

in collaboration with:
  • The Center for Early Childhood IDEA Data Systems (DaSy)

Graphing Templates

After entering data into these worksheets, graphs can be copied and pasted into other files, such as presentations and reports.

National-State Family Data State Approaches Graph Creator 2020–21 (FFY 2020) (2023)

Compare your state's C4 family outcomes data to the national data in the three sub-indicator areas. Make comparisons to subgroups of states that use the same survey and scoring approach for the following:

  • the FOS with recommended scoring,
  • the FOS-Revised with recommended scoring, and;
  • the NCSEAM with Rasch scoring.

States that use other scoring or surveys can graph their data using the comparison to national data. National data in the calculator are for FFY 2020, submitted by states in February 2022.

Family Indicator Local Program Graphing Template (2016)

Create graphs comparing your family indicator data by local program.