Guided by the North Carolina Birth-5 Early Childhood Education Strategic Plan, North Carolina’s Preschool Development Grant Birth to Age 5 (PDG B-5) supports children, families, and educators by funding a wide range of activities. One goal of the PDG B-5 focuses on strengthening North Carolina’s early care and education mixed delivery system (ECE system). One of the objectives under this goal is to improve early childhood data systems to facilitate the state’s ability to measure progress toward its goals and to assist policymakers in ECE program planning and coordination. To address this objective, the state funded several activities focused on improving data systems and data usage to support the ECE system. The North Carolina Division of Child Development and Early Education (DCDEE) contracted with Child Trends to evaluate the PDG B-5. As part of this effort, Child Trends conducted a deep dive evaluation to learn more about data-related efforts funded by PDG B-5. (author abstract)