quantifying the early childhood economy prepared by dennis winters and theresa field university research park 510 charmany drive suite 173 madison wi 53719 tel 608 441 8060 nstar northstareconomics com invest in kids working paper no 8 committee for economic development group www ced org projects shtml february 2006 northstar economics inc 2 table of contents executive summary 3 highlights questions further introduction 6 demographic section industry 38 occupation 102 appendix d demograhic tables 22 i 57 o 110 this study attempts to define us devoted particularly segment population that is under five years old what we call infants toddlers preschoolers or itp task was benchmark using readily available public data could be comparable across industries states broken out into three sections report demographics occupations richest somewhat difficult with