Child care by default or design?: An exploration of differences between non-profit and for-profit Canadian child care centres using the You Bet I Care! data sets
An analysis of the differences in child care quality in commercial versus publicly operated child care centers in Canada
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An economic perspective on the current and future role of nonprofit provision of early learning and child care services in Canada: Final project report
An analysis comparing the quality of non-profit and for-profit child care centers in Canada based on a literature review, analysis of a national data set and three smaller data sets from Quebec and Toronto, and interviews with key informants
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Faculty survey report: Prepared for the Child Care Human Resources Sector Council Training Strategy Project
A study of early childhood education faculty members in Canada and their perceptions of and attitudes toward students and child care, based on a survey of faculty members at 17 post-secondary education institutions
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Follow-up student survey report: Prepared for the Training Strategy Project
A follow-up study of former early childhood education (ECE) students at post-secondary institutions in Canada and their current ECE job status, job characteristics, professional development activities, and relevance of post-secondary ECE study to current job, based on a survey of students formerly at eight post-secondary education institutions
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Hidden fragility: Closure among child care services in BC
A study examining factors related to the closure of licensed child care centers and family child care providers in British Columbia, Canada, by comparing providers operating in 1997 that remained open in 2001 with those that had closed by 2001
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Hidden fragility: Closure among licensed child-care services in British Columbia
An investigation into the factors influencing the stability of child care centers over time, based on information from 1,101 child care centers in British Columbia, Canada
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Perceived stress and Canadian early childcare educators
A study of the associations between the perceptions of work-related stress and the characteristics of child care personnel and their workplaces, based on the questionnaire responses of 69 early childhood workers in British Columbia, Canada
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Predictors of quality in family child care
An analysis of indicators of quality in regulated Canadian family child care homes, including provider's education level, training and experience, use of support services, and provider work environment
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Shedding new light on staff recruitment and retention challenges in child care
A study on child care provider staff satisfaction and retention challenges in Canada
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Student survey report: Prepared for the Training Strategy Project
A study of early childhood education students at post-secondary institutions in Canada and their attitudes toward their experiences and plans for the future, based on a survey of students at eight post-secondary education institutions
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Toward a social care program of research: A population-level study of neighborhood effects on child development
An exploration of the associations between the characteristics of developmentally limited populations of children and community socioeconomic characteristics in British Columbia, Canada, using data from the Early Development Instrument (EDI) and the 2001 Canadian Census
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Towards a predictive model of quality in Canadian child care centers
A report of a large scale study of indicators of quality in Canadian child care centers as assessed by center observations combined with director and staff questionnaires reporting on regulatory, financial, and administrative information
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Unionization and quality in early childhood programs
A study of the impact of unionization on wages/benefits and working conditions of workers among non-profit child care centers in Canada
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Working for change: Canada's child care workforce: Labour market update [Main report]
A study of the child care provider workforce in Canada
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