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1999 Oregon child care market rate study
Tvedt, Karen, 1999

A study of child care market rates in Oregon in 1999, including analyses of provider capacity and enrollment, average hours considered full time, children's age by provider type, and nonstandard hour care and additional fees

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2000 Oregon child care market rate study
Oregon. Adult and Family Services Division, 2000
Salem: Oregon, Adult and Family Services Division.

A study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the State of Oregon in 2000

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2000 Oregon child care market rate study [Executive summary]
Oregon. Adult and Family Services Division, 2000
Salem: Oregon, Adult and Family Services Division.

The summary of findings from a study of child care market rates and their geographic distribution across the State of Oregon in 2000

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AFS consumer survey: From parents receiving child-care assistance
Oregon. Adult and Family Services Division, 1998
Salem, OR: Oregon, Adult and Family Services Division.

A report of findings from a statewide consumer survey of parents receiving child care assistance through Oregon's Integrated Child Care Program

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AFS provider survey: From child-care providers serving parents who receive child-care assistance
Oregon. Adult and Family Services Division, 1998
Salem, OR: Oregon, Adult and Family Services Division.

A report of findings from a statewide survey of child care providers serving parents receiving child care assistance through Oregon's Integrated Child Care Program

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Airlines, flight attendants, and dependent care
Desrosiers, Alyce, January, 1997
Portland, OR: Portland State University.

An investigation into the relationship between child care arrangements of flight attendants and their absenteeism, based on a survey of 113 flight attendants with dependent care responsibilities based out of Oregon

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Balancing work and caregiving for children, adults, and elders
Neal, Margaret B., 1993
(Family caregiver applications series vol. 3). Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications

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Employee Survey
Emlen, Arthur, 1994
Portland, OR: Portland State University, Regional Research Institute for Human Services.

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Estimating child care needs in Oregon, 1993
Emlen, Arthur, 1993
Salem: Oregon Child Care Resource and Referral Network.

A report estimating the child care demand for Oregon State in order to assess the supply of child care resources for the state as a whole as well as for each of its geographic regions

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From a parent's point of view: Flexibility, income, and quality of child care
Emlen, Arthur, 2000
Paper presented at the meeting of the Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development Program, Bethesda, Maryland

Selected research findings of parent’s perspectives on the quality of child care

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From a parent's point of view: Measuring the quality of child care
Emlen, Arthur, 1999
Portland, OR: Portland State University, Regional Research Institute for Human Services.

A study of parent?s views on the quality of child care, examining measurement tools for parent assessment of the quality of their child care, family social and economic factors that may account for parent?s views of child care, and the influence of parent data, interests, and voices on quality of care policies

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From a Parent's Point of View: Measuring the Quality of Child Care
Emlen, Arthur, 1999
In From a parent's point of view: Measuring the quality of child care. Portland, OR: Portland State University, Regional Research Institute for Human Services.

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Hard to find and difficult to manage: The effects of child care on the workplace
Emlen, Arthur, 1984
Portland, OR: Portland State University, Regional Research Institute for Human Services.

A study of the relationship between employee’s child care needs and their work, focusing on the types of child care arrangements employees use, why they choose the care they do, the level of difficulty in finding care, employees’ levels of absenteeism and stress, and the roles of employers’ personnel policies, based on a 1983 survey of 20,000 employees from 33 companies and agencies in Portland, Oregon

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Market rate study guidebook: A guide to implementing a child care market rate study using child care resource and referral data
Grobe, Deana, 2003
Corvallis: Oregon Child Care Research Partnership.

A guide to conducting state child care market rate surveys using data from child care resource and referral databases

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Oregon Child Care Research Partnership: Wave I
Emlen, Arthur, 1995
Portland State University

A partnership formed to conduct research related to child care policy at both the state and national level, focused on three areas: (1) parent child care choices; (2) community and state needs assessment; and (3) welfare reform. The partnership brings together university-based researchers, state agency child care staff, the Head Start Collaboration Project, and the Oregon Child Care Resource and Referral Network, along with other child care practitioners.

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A packet of scales for measuring quality of child care from a parent's point of view: With summary of method and findings
Emlen, Arthur, 2000
Portland, OR: Portland State University, Regional Research Institute for Human Services.

A collection of scales for the measurement of child care quality from parents' perspectives, developed as part of a four-year project, with condensed summaries of the project's method and findings

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Parental use of child care: A guide for constructing parent surveys
Emlen, Arthur, January 2007
Corvallis: Oregon Child Care Research Partnership

A guide for constructing surveys on factors driving parental use of supplemental child care, including discussions of constructs and variables related to household, parent, work, and child characteristics, child care arrangements, and parent choice

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Quality of care for children with a disability
Emlen, Arthur, 1999
In K. J. Exo, L. J. Gordon, P. Jivanjee, & K. Blankenship (Eds.), Building on family strengths: Research and services in support of children and their families: 1997 conference proceedings (pp. 84-87). Portland, OR: Portland State University, Research and Training Center on Family Support and Children's Mental Health.

A comparison of the child care arrangements, flexibility, and quality of parents with children with social or behavioral problems and those without

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Quality of care from a parent's point of view: A place at the policy table for child-care consumers
Emlen, Arthur, 1996
Paper presented at the Child Care Bureau Leadership Forum, Washington, DC.

This scale measures parent perspectives of child care quality.

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Quality of Care From a Parent's Point of View: A Questionnaire About Child Care
Emlen, Arthur, 1996
In From a parent's point of view: Measuring the quality of child care. Portland, OR: Portland State University, Regional Research Institute for Human Services.

A scale used to measure parent perspectives of child care quality

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Quality of Care From a Parent's Point of View: A Questionnaire About Child Care: Improved Scales from the Kansas City Replication
Emlen, Arthur, 1997
In From a parent's point of view: Measuring the quality of child care. Portland, OR: Portland State University, Regional Research Institute for Human Services.

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Research and child care policy: A view from the states
Elliot, Janis, 1999
(Child Care Policy Research Issue Brief No. 1). Albany, OR: Linn-Benton Community College, Family Resources and Education.

A discussion of the limited use of research by 45 state child care administrators participated in a survey or focused discussion held in Washington, D.C., as part of the Child Care Bureau’s 1998 state administrators’ conference

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Solving the childcare and flexibility puzzle: How working parents make the best feasible choices and what that means for public policy
Emlen, Arthur, 2010
Boca Raton, FL: Universal-Publishers

A treatise on the relationship between parental flexibility and the consideration of quality in child care choices and a discussion of the differences in the values expressed by advocates of the child care profession and parents selecting child care arrangements in the marketplace

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The stability of the family day care arrangement: A longitudinal study
Emlen, Arthur, 1972
Corvallis: Oregon State University, Continuing Education Publications.

A longitudinal study of the stability, maternal and caregiver attitudes, features of family child care arrangements, based on mother and caregiver interviews

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The validity of child-care market-rate surveys
Emlen, Arthur, 2005
Unpublished manuscript

An outline of factors and issues related to the validity of child care market rate studies, including methods of: defining markets and communities; collecting data on rates; and accounting for differences in provider types

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