Community Variations in Child Care for Working Poor Families: Contributions to Child Development and Parental Employment Opportunities

Principal Investigator(s): Kontos, Susan; Elicker, James;
Date Issued: 2001
Description: A description and comparison of the "child care landscapes" in four communities with diverse subsidy policies, employing an integrated design and using existing data, qualitative data, and quantitative data to identify the community-level variables that are most strongly associated with quality of care and child and family outcomes, and to determine the linkages between child care characteristics and parental work outcomes. The first phase includes 500 parent surveys, 30 community informant interviews, 15 parent focus groups and an analysis of existing community data. The second phase includes assessments of 300 children (30 infants/toddlers and 30 preschoolers in each of 5 communities), their parents, and their child care providers, using measures of child care structural quality, process quality, child development, and parent employment.
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Grantee(s)/ Contractor(s): Purdue University
Funder(s): United States. Child Care Bureau
Contact(s): Elicker, James
Source: Purdue University
Topics: Children & Child Development > Child Development & School Readiness > Community, Cultural, & Social Influences

Child Care & Early Education Quality

Parent, School, & Community School Readiness/Child School Success & Performance
Start Date: 09/30/2001
End Date: 03/29/2005
Project Type: Child Care Policy Research Projects
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