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National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: Care in the home: A description of family child care and the experiences of the families and children that use it: Final report
United States. Administration for Children and Families , 08/01/2007

Findings from the two-and-a-half-year In-Depth Study of Family Child Care, a component of the National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, focusing on parents and their employment and child care experience, family child care providers and their homes as child care environments, and children and their experiences in family child care

Reports & Papers

National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: Care in the home: A description of family child care and the experiences of the families and children who use it: Wave 1 report [Executive summary]
United States. Administration for Children and Families , 04/01/2006

A summary of findings from the first wave of data collection for the In-Depth Study of Family Child Care, a component of the National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families, focusing on parents and their employment and child care experience, family child care providers and their homes as child care environments, and children and their experiences in family child care

Executive Summary

National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families: Care in the home: A description of family child care and the experiences of the families and children who use it: Final report: Volume II: Measures used in the study
United States. Administration for Children and Families , 08/01/2006

An exhaustive survey that assesses low-income families’ child care arrangements: includes interviews with parents followed by interviews with family child care providers and school-age children, criteria for family child care home observation and an environment checklist, an environment snapshot, and finally a provider rating system

Other

National Study of Child Care for Low-Income Families
Layzer, Jean I. , 01/01/1997

A five-year research effort, in 17 states and 25 communities, designed to provide information on the responses of states and communities to the child care needs of low-income families, the employment and child care choices made by low-income families, and the factors that influence those choices. The study includes an in-depth, longitudinal study of low-income families and their family child care providers in five of the 25 study communities.

Child Care Bureau/OPRE Projects

Family Child Care Home Observation: Information Sheet, Physical Description of Setting, Roster of Children Enrolled and Present
United States. Administration for Children and Families , 08/01/2006

Instruments