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2005 report on child care in Cook County: Elements of child care supply and demand
Illinois Action for Children, 2006
Chicago: Illinois Action for Children.

An examination of the disconnect between child care supply and demand in Cook County, Illinois, with a focus on affordability and hours of care needed by parents

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2012 report: Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement to the National Agricultural Worker Survey
United States. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, March, 2012
(OPRE Report No. 2012-13). Washington, DC: U.S. Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

Findings on the characteristics of families with children under 6 years old from the National Agricultural Worker Survey (NAWS), a national random sample survey of crop farmworkers, and findings on families' child care experiences from the NAWS Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Supplement, which is administered to NAWS respondents with children under the age of 6

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4th survey of parents of three and four year old children and their use of early years services: (Summer 1999 to spring 2000)
National Centre for Social Research (Great Britain), January 2001
(Research Report No. RR247). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Employment.

Findings from a survey of parents of three- and four-year-old children on their use of early childhood education and care services, based on a survey sample of 5955 parents in England

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Adolescents assuming adult roles: Factors associated with teens providing child care for younger siblings
Capizzano, Jeffrey, 2004
(JCPR Working Paper No. 353). Chicago: Joint Center for Poverty Research.

A study examining patterns of adolescent sibling child care usage by single- and two-parent families, using data from the 1996 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP)

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African American, White and Hispanic child care preferences: A factorial survey analysis of welfare leavers by race and ethnicity
Shlay, Anne B., January 2010
Social Science Research, 39(1), 125-141

An examination of race and ethnicity differences in child care preferences and definitions of child care quality from a survey of 97 low income adults whose TANF benefits have been terminated in Pennsylvania

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After preschool inclusion: Children's educational pathways over the early school years
Hanson, Marci, 2001
Exceptional Children, 68(1), 65-83

A longitudinal interview-based study of factors influencing families' decisions to place young children with disabilities in inclusion programs

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After-school programs in Koreatown, Los Angeles, California
Huh, Cheong Rhie, 2004
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of California, Los Angeles

An exploration of after school programs in Koreatown in Los Angeles, examining what constitutes a program, why parents send their children, and why children attend these programs

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Alternate child care, history of hospitalization, and preschool child behavior
Youngblut, JoAnne M., 1999
Nursing Research, 48(1), 29-34

An examination of alternate child care experiences on the relationship between hospitalization and behavior of preschool children living in female-headed single-parent families

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Alternate child care options: Preferences of the hill community
Ahuja, Abba, 2000
International Journal of Early Childhood, 32(2), 91-96

An exploration of the child care needs of women living in a rural upland hill area in India

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Arranging and paying for child care
O'Brien-Strain, Margaret, 2003
San Francisco: Public Policy Institute of California.

A report on the child care arrangements, payment methods, preschool enrollment, and potential costs of universal preschool provision in California

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Asymmetric information and the child care market
Lim, Youngok, 2006
Unpublished doctoral dissertation, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

A study using data from the Child Care Programs of Excellence (CCPOE) project to examine which types of providers are more likely to participate in a voluntary quality rating system, and the significance of quality in parents' decisions about child care arrangements

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Attributions of service switching: A study of consumers’ and providers’ perceptions of child-care service delivery
Grace, Debra, 2001
Journal of Services Marketing, 15(4/5), 300-321

An examination of factors that surround families’ switch between child care providers, and service providers’ perceptions of factors that influence switching behavior, based on survey responses from 84 families who had switched child care centers and 107 early childhood service providers from Australia

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Atypical working hours: Consequences for childcare arrangements
Le Bihan, Blanche, 2004
Social Policy & Administration, 38(6), 565-590

An inquiry into the child care arrangements and work-life balance of families with parents who work atypical hours, based on a subsample of 12 families from France, Finland, and Portugal from the SOCCARE Project

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Australia's child care subsidies: A distributional analysis
Schofield, Deborah, 1999
Brazilian Electronic Journal of Economics, 2(2)

An investigation into the distribution of child care subsidies across different types of families, based on a simulation of child care utilization, using information from the Department of Human Services and Health in England

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The barriers to childcare provision
Callender, Claire, October 2000
(Research Report No. 231). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain. Department for Education and Employment.

An investigation into the existence and types of barriers to providing child care for children aged 16 and under

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The best laid plans: Expectations, preferences, and stability of child-care arrangements
Gordon, Rachel A., 2006
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 68(2), 373-393

A study using data from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care to examine whether timing and extent of the search for child care is associated with stability in child care arrangements

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Calhoun, Pocahontas & Webster County child care study: Final report
Iowa State University. Community Development-Data Information & Analysis Laboratory, August 2000
(CD-DIAL No. 108). Ames: Iowa State University, Community Development-Data Information & Analysis Laboratory.

A study of the child care arrangements, attitudes, and needs of parents in Calhoun, Pocahontas, and Webster Counties, Iowa, based on a parent survey

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The care of mildly ill children: Perspectives of Canadian parents and childcare directors
Polyzoi, Eleoussa, 2003
Journal of Early Childhood Research, 1(2), 213-225

A comparison between parents' child care preferences for mildly ill children and those of child care directors

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Caring for children of color: The child care patterns of white, black, and Hispanic children under 5
Capizzano, Jeffrey, 2006
(Occasional Paper No. 72). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.

A study of child care arrangement patterns across groups of white, African American and Hispanic children

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Caring for Connecticut's children: Perspectives on informal, subsidized child care
Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut, 1999
Farmington: Child Health and Development Institute of Connecticut.

A report presenting findings from a study on informal child care with a focus on the use of this care by low income families in Connecticut

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CDSS-PACE Child Care Planning Project: Descriptive findings from the child care subsidy interview
Hirshberg, Diane, 2002
(Working Paper Series 02-2). Berkeley: Policy Analysis for California Education.

A survey of of current and former CalWORKs participants on subsidy use and child care selection in California

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Center-based care in the context of one-child policy in China: Do child gender and siblings matter?
Zhai, Fuhua, October, 2010
Population Research and Policy Review, 29(5), 745-774

An examination of the relationships among center-based care enrollment and child's age, gender, siblings, sibling age, and child care facility availability, as well as the moderating influence of household and community resources and one-child policy in China on those relationships, based on data from 784 children and their parents in the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) 2000

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Center-based childcare use by Hispanic families: Reasons and predictors
Yesil-Dagli, Ummuhan, July 2011
Children and Youth Services Review, 33(7), 1298-1308

A study of the relationship between use of center-based child care services by Hispanic mothers and maternal education, employment, income, acculturation, and receipt of support payments, as well as household size and both the educational and pragmatic characteristics of centers, based on data from a national sample of 7209 Hispanic mothers of preschoolers

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Changing household structure, child-care availability, and employment among mothers of preschool children
Floge, Liliane, 1989
Journal of Marriage and the Family, 51(1), 51-63

An analysis of the changing effects of household structure on the employment, child care availability and continued education of mothers with preschool children in New York City

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Characteristics of children's early care and education programs: Data from the 1995 National Household Education Survey
Hofferth, Sandra L., 1998
(NCES 98-128). Washington, DC: National Center for Education Statistics.

A comprehensive study of the early nonparental child care and education that children receive before entering school, with particular attention to: the type and amount of child care that children received; child care quality; the way in which child and family characteristics influenced child care selection; the way in which information about child care arrangements, particularly child care costs, indicated child care quality; and the way in which child care experiences influenced school failure.

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