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Assessing Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) investments in child care quality A catalog, directory, and report on the evaluations of 104 local and state child care quality improvement initiatives funded through the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) |
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Child care quality and workforce characteristics in four Midwestern states A study of observed child care quality and its relation to hypothesized and potential indicators of quality, using a representative randomly selected sample of the provider population in four Midwestern states |
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Child-care selection from birth to age three: The influence of family economy, demographics, and parenting attitudes Two studies using data from the NICHD Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development examined family variations in timing and type of children's initial child care arrangements and then variations in amount of hours spent in child care per week from birth to age three |
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A comparative analysis of subsidized and non-subsidized relative child care homes in Kansas A comparison of the quality of care provided by family, friend, and neighbor caregivers in Kansas who do or do not receive child care subsidies, based on observations of and interviews with 22 caregivers and on focus groups with 5 caregivers |
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Counting the child care workforce: A catalog of state data sources to quantify and describe child caregivers in the fifty states and the District of Columbia A report on data sources suitable for use in calculating the size of the child care workforce for individual states |
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Early care and education partnerships: State actions and local lessons An inquiry into the nature and durability of partnerships between early childhood education and care providers and community organizations that support parents’ child care needs |
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Family income, parent education, and perceived constraints as predictors of observed program quality and parent rated program quality A study of the relationship between differences in observed program quality and parent perceived program quality among parents with various family income, parents' education, parents' perceived constraints in selecting child care, and type of selected child care, based on data from 1,313 parents by children in poor, low-income, and non-low-income families in 4 Midwestern state |
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The importance of child care in economic development: A comparative analysis of regional economic linkage An analysis of the regional economic impact of the child care sector, as compared to the agriculture, manufacturing, and services sectors, using state-level input-output models |
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Measuring improper payments in the child care program: A pilot project of the ACF Child Care Bureau: Final report A study conducted to find and reduce erroneous payments in specific Health and Human Services programs in California, Nebraska, Arizona, Kansas, Arkansas, Colorado, Illinois, Ohio and New Hampshire |
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Parent experiences with state child care subsidy systems and their perceptions of choice and quality in care selected A study of parents' experiences using Child Care and Development Fund and other state-dispersed child care subsidies, reasons for choosing their current child care program, and perceptions of the quality of child care received from their current program, based on a survey of 659 parents receiving child care subsidies in 4 states |
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Parent perceptions of child care choice and quality in four states A study of parents’ child care perceptions, decision-making factors, and processes in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Nebraska |
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Practices and policies: Market rate surveys in states, territories, and tribes Findings from a study examining current child care market rate survey methods, practices, and policies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, territories, and tribes, including descriptions of challenges faced by jurisdictions in conducting surveys, and methods of providing study data |
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Regulation, subsidy receipt and provider characteristics: What predicts quality in child care homes? A study of the influence of family child care regulations, the concentration of children cared for who received public child care subsidies (i.e., subsidy density), providers' level of education, and reported annual training hours on global quality and caregiver sensitivity in four Midwestern states |
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Second error rate pilot report A study of a methodology for measuring improper payments in states' administration of the Child Care and Development Fund |
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State assessment of internal controls: Final report A description of the development and pilot of the State Internal Control Self-Assessment Instrument, an instrument for assessing states' internal controls for preventing improper payments in their administration of the Child Care and Development Fund |
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State survey analysis report A study of states' policies and procedures used to identify, measure, and reduce improper payments in the administration of the Child Care and Development Fund |
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Studying the culture of quality early education and care: A cumulative approach to measuring characteristics of the workforce and relations to quality in four Midwestern states A study of the relation between child care provider characteristics, summed up in an Asset Index for Child Care Providers, and child care quality in four Midwestern states |
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