Preschool Reporting

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention • National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases

Assessment Activities in Preschool Facilities

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General Information

1. What kind of preschool programs does your state immunization law cover?

2. What ages of preschool children do you include in your assessment?

3. Does the law specify the vaccines and/or antigens to be included in the assessment of immunization status of children in preschool programs?

4. What vaccines are required by law for children in preschool programs? What vaccines are you able to monitor among children in preschool programs? (Select vaccine)

5. Which of the following exemptions are allowed by your state/territory law?

6. How is the immunization status of a preschool child documented in the facility’s records?

7. How frequently are you required to assess the immunization status of children in preschool programs?

Census Assessment

8. Does your “census assessment” methodology require you to collect data from 100% or fewer than 100% of the preschool facilities?

9. If your methodology includes fewer than 100% of facilities, how do you select the facilities to be included in the annual assessment?

10. Of facilities included in your “census assessment,” do you collect information on 100% or fewer than 100% of the preschool children in each facility?

11. If your methodology includes the records of fewer than 100% of the preschool children, how do you select the children to be included in the preschool coverage assessment?

12. What information is “assessed” or reviewed during the assessment activities?

13. Does the assessment report form that you send to NIP reflect preschool assessment results before or after “follow-up” of children who are not up-to-date? Follow-up refers to any activities or interventions implemented in order to ensure that noncompliant students become compliant.

14. Estimate the number of weeks or months that your public health assessment team is involved in collecting and reporting data for the census assessment?

15. Approximately how many full and part-time public health staff members are involved in the collecting and reporting process?

Validation Assessment

16. Do you conduct a validation assessment or additional survey to verify the results of your previous assessment of coverage in preschool facilities?

17. If your methodology includes fewer than 100% of facilities, how do you select the facilities to be included in the validation assessment?

18. How do you select the children to be included in the preschool validation survey?

19. Who actually implements the validation survey?

20a. What information is “assessed” or reviewed during the validation survey?

20b. If the information is not “assessed” or reviewed, could you assess this information?

21. Are there consequences for facilities whose reports seriously or continually deviate from the validation study results?

22. How frequently do you conduct a validation study?

23. Does your validation report reflect preschool assessment results before or after “follow-up” of noncompliant children? Follow-up refers to any activities or interventions implemented in order to ensure that noncompliant students become compliant.