Accessing and affording child care and low-income mothers' employment over time: An ecological approach
A study of the influence of child problem behaviors and maternal risk factors on low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care, an examination of family income as a mediator of the relationships between child problem behaviors, maternal risk factors and low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care, and an examination of the relationships between low-income mothers’ ability to access and afford child care and family income, child problem behaviors, maternal risk factors, and ability to obtain and maintain employment
Reports & Papers
American Time Use Survey (ATUS), 2003-2008, Multi-Year Data
The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) collects information on how people living in the United States spend their time. Estimates show the kinds of activities people engage in and the time they spend involved in these activities by age, sex, educational attainment, labor force status, and other characteristics, as well as by weekday and weekend day. Data about the quality of life in the United States include how much time people spend working, sleeping, caring for children, volunteering, participating in religious activities, commuting, or relaxing, as well as with whom they spend their time. Information is provided about 'secondary childcare' which is defined as care for children under 13 that is done while doing something else as a primary activity.
Data Sets
American Time Use Survey (ATUS), 2008
The American Time Use Survey (ATUS) collects information on how people living in the United States spend their time. Estimates show the kinds of activities people engage in and the time they spend involved in these activities by age, sex, educational attainment, labor force status, and other characteristics, as well as by weekday and weekend day. Data about the quality of life in the United States include how much time people spend working, sleeping, caring for children, volunteering, participating in religious activities, commuting, or relaxing, as well as with whom they spend their time. Information is provided about 'secondary childcare' which is defined as care for children under 13 that is done while doing something else as a primary activity.
Data Sets
Assembly Bill 627: Nevada early childhood education (ECE) program: FY 2007-08 final evaluation report
An evaluation of the Nevada publicly-funded early childhood education program for preschool-age children that examined the developmental progress and parental involvement of program participants over the program year and compared first and third grade outcomes of participants and nonparticipants
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Assembly Bill 627: Nevada early childhood education (ECE) program: FY 2007-08 final evaluation report [Executive summary]
A summary of an evaluation of the Nevada publicly-funded early childhood education program for preschool-age children that examined the developmental progress and parental involvement of program participants over the program year and compared first and third grade outcomes of participants and nonparticipants
Executive Summary
Characteristics of effective collaboration among innovative early childhood intervention programs
A qualitative study of collaboration and communication processes between early childhood intervention programs and the families and the community, based on a survey and observations of two sites serving a low-income, high needs population
Reports & Papers
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2006 (CCDF) [United States]
This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, attend training or receive education.
Data Sets
Child care and early education in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
A study of child care attendance patterns and quality indicators, parent child care decisionmaking and satisfaction, and developmental outcomes of infants and preschool-age children in Australia, based on data from 5,107 infants and 4,983 preschool-age children from the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
Reports & Papers
Child care and early education in Australia: The Longitudinal Study of Australian Children [Executive summary]
A summary of a study of child care attendance patterns and quality indicators, parent child care decisionmaking and satisfaction, and developmental outcomes of infants and preschool-age children in Australia, based on data from 5,107 infants and 4,983 preschool-age children from the nationally representative Longitudinal Study of Australian Children
Executive Summary
Child care and work challenges for Maine's parents of children with special needs
An examination of child care and work issues for parents of children with special needs from focus groups and interviews with parents, child care providers, and other professionals involved with service delivery and a presentation of several strategies Maine has developed to address them
Reports & Papers
Child care choices in Spain
An econometric study of the relationship between families' child care choices and the relative prices of various types of care, families' economic resources, changes in family needs as children grow, and availability of care, based on a survey of 1,615 households from both the Spanish Time Use Survey and Household Budget Survey
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Child care in America: Parents' perspectives: 2009 NACCRRA National Policy Symposium: Getting child care on the right track
A presentation of 44 parents' experiences with child care, with policy recommendations for ensuring access to affordable, high-quality child care
Other
The Child Care Self-Sufficiency Scale: Measuring child care funding and policy generosity across states
The development of a composite measure of state generosity entitled the Child Care Self-Sufficiency Scale (CCSS), an examination of the relationship between the CCSS and state funding and policy indicators, the relationship between CCSS and political ideology, partisanship, wealth, and race/ethnicity, and an investigation of the relationship between the CCSS and differences in the characteristics of families, child care subsidy use, and type of care, from a secondary analysis of state-generated Child Care Development Fund data
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Child care subsidies and the employment of single mothers
An examination of the relationship between child care subsidies and the employment of single mothers after 1996, based on data collected in 1999 and 2002 from the National Survey of America's Families, and an examination of the relationship between free public kindergarten for 5-year-old children and employment for different groups of mothers and groups of states, based on data from the 2005, 2006 and 2007 rounds of the American Community Survey
Reports & Papers
Child care subsidy patterns: Are exits related to economic setbacks or economic successes?
An analysis of factors associated with child care subsidy use exits among single mothers in Wisconsin due to high earnings, job loss, or other reasons, based on statewide administrative data from a cohort of mothers beginning subsidy use between March 2000 and February 2001
Reports & Papers
Child Care Subsidy Use and the Relationship to Parental Work and Child Care Quality in Rural Communities
The purpose of this project is to understand how low-income rural families use child care subsidies, the quality of care they receive, and how subsidy use is related to child outcomes and parental work conditions. The project addresses these topics with data from the Family Life Project. The research questions include: (1) What percentage of rural families who are income-eligible for subsidies and use child care take up subsidies, and do the arrangements they make differ from (a) economically disadvantaged families who do not use subsidies; (b) economically advantaged families using child care?; (2) How do the work conditions of families who take-up child care subsidies differ from those who do not? Specifically, is job quality higher and more stable (e.g. more flexible, fewer turnovers, provide benefits, higher wages, more stable work hours)?; and (3) Is context, as measured by neighborhood disadvantage and geographic isolation, related to subsidy take-up?
Administration for Children and Families/OPRE Projects
Cornell University child care & child care grant survey: Impact on the Cornell community
An evaluation of the Cornell Child Care Grant Subsidy Program (CCCGSP), and an inquiry into the relationship between employees’ subsidy receipt and the quality of child care arrangements chosen, using data from an online survey of grant recipients in 2009
Executive Summary
Current Population Survey: Annual Social and Economic (ASEC) Supplement Survey, 2006
This data collection is comprised of data from the 2006 Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), and is a part of the Current Population Survey (CPS) Series. The Census Bureau conducts the ASEC (known as the Annual Demographic File prior to 2003) over a three-month period, in February, March, and April, with most of the data collected in the month of March. The ASEC uses two sets of survey questions, the basic CPS and a set of supplemental questions.
The CPS, administered monthly, is a labor force survey providing current estimates of the economic status and activities of the population of the United States. Specifically, the CPS provides estimates of total employment (both farm and nonfarm), nonfarm self-employed persons, domestics, and unpaid helpers in nonfarm family enterprises, wage and salaried employees, and estimates of total unemployment.
In addition to the basic CPS questions, respondents were asked questions from the ASEC, which provides supplemental data on poverty, geographic mobility/migration, and work experience. Comprehensive work experience information was given on the employment status, occupation, and industry of persons aged 15 and over. Additional data for persons aged 15 and older were available concerning weeks worked and hours per week worked, reason not working full time, total income and supplemental income components. Additional data are included that cover training and assistance received under welfare reform programs such as job readiness training, child care services, or job skill training. Data covering nine noncash income sources: food stamps, school lunch program, employer-provided group health insurance plan, employer-provided pension plan, personal health insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, CHAMPUS or military health care, and energy assistance are also included.
Demographic variables include age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, marital status, veteran status, educational attainment, occupation, and income. Data on employment and income refer to the previous calendar year, although demographic data refer to the time of the survey.
The original ASEC data provided by the Census Bureau are distributed in a hierarchical file structure, with three record types present: Household, Family, and Person. The ASEC is designed to be a multistage stratified sample of housing units, where the hierarchical file structure can be thought of as a person within a family within a household unit. Here the main unit of analysis is the household unit. For ease of analysis at the person-level, ICPSR created a rectangular file structure that contains a record for every person with the respective Household and Family variables prepended to the Person variables. Part 1 contains the rectangular data file and Part 2 contains the original hierarchical data file.
Data Sets
Dialogical spaces to reconceptualize parent support in the social investment state
A survey of parent opinions of social support initiatives for parents and children from 44 interviews and 311 survey respondents in Brussels, Belgium
Reports & Papers
Early school performance for students with disabilities: Examining the impact of early childhood special education, parent involvement, and family quality of life
An examination of home-based parent involvement and family quality of life
as moderators of the relationship between parent ratings of early childhood special education services and academic or social-behavioral outcomes for children with disabilities, based on 156 parent ratings of services
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Ecological influences on emergent literacy development: The role of home and preschool experiences in the transition from language to literacy
An examination of the relationships between measures of children's home and preschool settings and their performance on tests of emergent literacy, as well as an examination of pre-reading abilities and the factors that contribute to their growth, from longitudinal data collected by the Preschool Curriculum Evaluation Research (PCER)
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Effect of using the Ages and Stages questionnaires on childcare providers developmental assessment ability
An investigation the influence of the administration a standardized developmental screening tool and order of administration on accuracy of provider assessment of delayed child development and appropriate referral for further evaluation, a study of the relationship between accurate assessment and referral to an early intervention agency and child care provider age, years of experience, and educational level, and a third study of the relationship of parental impression of their child’s development and the child care provider impression, based on data collected from 105 providers in 9 centers, 195 parents, and interviews with 9 providers
Reports & Papers
Effects of maternal employment and child care on the health of young children
An examination of the relationship between both maternal employment and usage of non-parental after- and/or before-school supervision and elementary school-age children's body mass statuses from restricted use version of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 from waves 4, 5, and 6
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Effects of parent expectations and involvement on the school readiness of children in Head Start
A study of the relationships between measures of school readiness and both parental expectations and involvement in their children's home learning activities, and an exploration of moderation by race, gender, and level of risk, based on data collected from 77 caregivers of children formerly enrolled in a Head Start program
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Enrolling a child in centre-based care: The parent's experience
A study of parental emotional experiences with child care decision making, concerns for their children's emotional well being while in care, and hopes and desires for their experience while in care, based on interviews with 8 parents of children 1- through 3-years-old in their first year of center-based care
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