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2002/03 Childcare and Early Years Workforce survey: Childminders
Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills, May, 2004
Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills.

A comprehensive survey of England?s nanny workforce characteristics, 2002-2003

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2002/03 Childcare and Early Years Workforce survey: Day nurseries and other full-day care provision
Great Britain. Department for Education and Skills, May, 2004
Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills.

A comprehensive survey of England?s full-day child care provider workforce characteristics, 2002-2003

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2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Childminders
Clemens, Sam, 2006
(Research Report No. 763). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills.

A study of the characteristics of family child care providers in the United Kingdom, including average number of children served, income, qualifications, and training, based on provider surveys

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2005 Childcare and Early Years Providers Survey: Overview report
Clemens, Sam, 2006
(Research Report No. 764). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills.

A comparison of characteristics--including staff size, wages, recruitment, qualifications, and training--of child care provider organizations in four sectors--family child care providers, out-of-school time providers, full-day care providers, and part-day providers--in the United Kingdom, based on provider surveys

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2005 Montana home child care workforce survey
Montana Child Care Resource & Referral Network, 2005
Missoula: Montana Child Care Resource and Referral Network.

Findings from a survey of characteristics and compensation of early child care providers working in family and group child care homes in Montana in 2005

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2010 annual membership survey for the National Childminding Association (NCMA)
Qa Research, March, 2010
Bromley, United Kingdom: National Childminding Association.

A study of English and Welsh family child care providers, including their business practices, pay and working conditions, participation in family child care networks and quality improvement initiatives, and qualifications and training, based on interviews with 1,001 randomly selected members of a national association of family child care providers

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2011 impact of economic downturn on child care
Quality Care for Children,
Atlanta, GA: Quality Care for Children.

An examination of issues related to the number and quality of child care providers in Georgia, based on survey responses from 208 child care centers and 277 family child care providers

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ABC Learning Centres: A case study of Australia's largest child care corporation
Rush, Emma, 2006
(Discussion Paper No. 87). Canberra, Australian Capital Territory: Australia Institute.

A study of child care quality in child care centers operated by ABC Learning Centres Limited, the largest child care corporation in Australia, based on responses from ABC Learning Centres staff from a national survey of child care center staff and on detailed follow-up telephone interviews with staff

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Achieving high-quality child care: How ten programs deliver excellence parents can afford
Kinch, Amy,
Washington, DC: National Association for the Education of Young Children.

A study of the characteristics and fundamentals of a high quality and affordable early childhood program by highlighting ten highly-rated child care programs

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Active and passive surveillance for communicable diseases in child care facilities, Seattle-King Country, Washington
MacDonald, Jean K., 1997
American Journal of Public Health, 87(12), 1951-1955

A summary of active and passive public health surveillance activities for children under six years of age in out-of-home child care settings in Seattle-King County, Washington

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Activity settings and daily routines in preschool classrooms: Diverse experiences in early learning settings for low-income children
Fuligni, Allison Sidle, Q2 2012
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 27(2), 198-209

An identification of two routines profiles--structured-balanced and high free choice, derived from varying proportions of teacher-directed and child-initiated activities during the preschool day, and a study of the relationship between those routine profiles and structural program characteristics, measures of process quality, children's engagement in activities of various academic contents, teachers' instructional strategies, and children's school readiness skills, based on data from 53 public preschool classrooms, 47 private preschool classrooms, and 25 family child care homes that serve low-income children in Los Angeles, California

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Administrative costs in the Child and Adult Care Food Program: Results of an exploratory study of the reimbursement system for sponsors of family child care homes
Pettigrew, Iris, March 2006
(Contractor and Cooperator Report No. 16). Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

A study of administrative cost reimbursement payment system for Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) sponsor organizations, which administer CACFP to participating family child care homes at the local level

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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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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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After two years of YoungStar, a more complete picture emerges
Peterangelo, Joseph, March, 2013
(Research Brief Vol. 101, No. 2). Milwaukee, WI: Public Policy Forum.

A study of the implementation of YoungStar, the Wisconsin state child care quality rating and improvement system, in Milwaukee County, based on an analysis of administrative data on Milwaukee County providers during the program's first two years

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Air Force/NACCRRA Quality Family Child Care (QFCC) project: Final report
National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies, January, 2007
Arlington, VA: National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies.

An evaluation of a joint Air Force-National Association of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies initiative to increase the supply of high-quality family child care in civilian communities near Air Force bases by implementing the Air Force model of family child care among local providers

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Almost like family: Family child care
Harper Browne, Charlyn, October 2009
Washington, DC: Center for the Study of Social Policy.

An examination of family child care practices and efforts that promote factors associated with the prevention of child abuse and neglect, based on a literature review and surveys, focus groups, and site visits with family child care providers

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America After 3PM
Afterschool Alliance, October 2009
Washington, DC: Afterschool Alliance.

A 2009 update of and comparison to a 2004 study of the after school child care arrangements of kindergarten through grade 12 students, based on a survey of nearly 30,000 households

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An analysis of kin-provided child care in the context of intrafamily exchanges: Linking components of family support for parents raising young children
Brandon, Peter D., 2000
American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 59(2), 191-216

A study of the relationship between kin-provided child care and in-kind resource exchanges within extended families

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...And this helps me how?: Family child care providers discuss training
Taylor, Andrew R., 1999
Early Childhood Research Quarterly, 14(3), 285-312

A discussion of the obstacles involved in establishing successful training programs for family child care providers

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Assessing the operation and impact of the Childminder Sustainability Grant
Tapp, Penelope, 2003
(Research Report No. 484). Nottingham, United Kingdom: Great Britain, Department for Education and Skills.

A study of an initiative in the United Kingdom to increase the retention of family child care providers by offering grants to providers when they have temporarily vacant child care slots, based on case studies of local grantmaking procedures and in-depth small group interviews with family child care providers

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Assessing policy effects on enrollment in early childhood education and care
Greenberg, Joy Pastan, September 2010
Social Service Review, 84(3), 461-490

A study of the relationship between public spending for early childhood education and care and low-income children's enrollment in various types of early childhood education and care settings, based on secondary analyses of nationally representative household data collected between 1991 and 2005

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Assessing quality across all STAR levels
Pennsylvania. Office of Child Development and Early Learning, January, 2013
(Research Brief Vol. 2, Issue 1). Harrisburg: Pennsylvania, Office of Child Development and Early Learning.

Findings from a study of the relationship of the observed quality of child care programs participating in Keystone STARS, Pennsylvania's child care quality rating system, to their STARS rating, based on data for 46 randomly-selected programs

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Assessing quality in family, friend and neighbor care: The Child Care Assessment Tool for Relatives
Porter, Toni, 2006
New York: Bank Street College of Education, Institute for a Child Care Continuum. (No longer accessible as of October 10, 2012).

A paper describing the Child Care Assessment Tool for Relatives, an instrument designed to measure quality of child care provided by relatives, in terms of its development and the results of a field test where it was used with low income relative caregivers

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Assessing the quality of provision in community nurseries
Stephen, Christine, 1995
Early Child Development and Care, 108(1), 83-98

A study of the quality of child care provision for preschool children and the quality of community-based nurseries versus traditional nursery schools in the United Kingdom

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