The ability to understand the dynamics of the ECE workforce and make high confidence decisions about the future depends, in great part, on registry enabled data analysis insights. Abstract claims of a “workforce crisis” in child care and ECE, should be met with the level of business intelligence expected from our most important enterprises and the capacity to make clear, measurable decisions about reform, investments, and interventions. Registries are doing the work and - in their mandates and missions to capture, check, and update essential workforce data - are positioned to produce ever-current truths about the behaviors, migrations, and sustaining impact of this critical workforce. The benefits of these insights extend far beyond the workforce and workplace, as outlined on page 2. (author abstract)