13 indicators of quality child care: Research update
An annotated bibliography of research conducted since 1992 on thirteen key child care quality indicators used in developing child care licensing regulations.
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Child care costs in the Current Population Survey's Annual Social and Economic Supplement (CPS ASEC): A comparison to SIPP
A comparison of household child care expenses estimates in the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement and the Survey of Income and Program Participation
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Child care data in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP): Inaccuracies and corrections
A critique of the child care module in the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) identifying general data problems, including biased under coverage, high non-response, significant attrition, weighting and imputation biases, and inconsistencies across panels due to changes in the design of the SIPP's sample and questionnaire
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Common challenges in the study of continuity of child care subsidy participation: CCPRC subsidy workgroup methodology research brief series
A discussion of issues in designing studies of the dynamics of child care subsidy receipt
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Comparative childcare statistics in Europe: Conceptual and methodological fallacies
A discussion of methodological and conceptual challenges to the collection of data for making cross-national comparisons of child care arrangements in the European Union
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Comparative childcare statistics in Europe: Conceptual and methodological fallacies
A discussion of methodological and conceptual challenges to the collection of data for making cross-national comparisons of child care arrangements in the European Union
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Design for Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Survey: Final design report
A discussion of options and suggestions for the design of an ongoing survey of Migrant and Seasonal Head Start programs, staff, families, and children, including considerations for sampling, site outreach, instrumentation, data collection, and data analyses
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Cognitive interview findings report for center-based provider questionnaire
A discussion of the methodology of the design and content of a questionnaire to survey center-based child care providers for their participation in the assessment of the national supply of child care
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Cognitive interview findings report for demand questionnaire
A presentation of the development and content of a survey for the assessment of parental demand
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Cognitive interview findings report for home-based provider questionnaire
A discussion of the methodology of the design and content of a questionnaire to survey home-based child care providers for their participation in the assessment of the national supply of child care
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Feasibility test report
A description of the method used to evaluate the feasibility of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand, including an assessment of the study to answer its research questions while remaining within budget constraints
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Final recommendations for the center-based provider questionnaire
Recommendations for the improvement of the design and content of a survey instrument for the assessment of the national supply of center-based child care services
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Final recommendations for the demand questionnaire
Recommendations for the improvement of the design and content of a survey instrument for the assessment of the parents' demand for child care services across the United States
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Final recommendations for the home-based provider questionnaire
Recommendations for the improvement of the design and content of a survey instrument for the assessment of the national supply of home-based child care services, including comments of changes to the actual survey
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Design phase of the National Study of Child Care Supply and Demand (NSCCSD): Revised sampling report and addendum
A presentation of alternate designs of sampling methods for achieving a representative number of sample respondents for the assessment of the supply and demand of the national child care market
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Design phase of the National Study of Early Child Care Supply and Demand (NSECCSD): Final report
A description of a proposed design for a study on the functions of supply and demand in the child care market, including a discussion of public policy questions addressed through the implementation of the proposed study
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Early childhood assessment: Why, what, and how?
A discussion of developmental outcomes for children from birth to age five and a review of instruments used in developmental assessment
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): Preschool-kindergarten 2007 psychometric report
A description of the design of the assessments and methods of analysis used in the data collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort to measure cognitive and social development of children in their transition to kindergarten
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B): Psychometric report for the 2-year data collection: Methodology report
A description of the characteristics and field performance of instruments used in the two-year data collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Birth Cohort (ECLS-B), a nationally representative longitudinal study following children born in 2001 in the United States from birth until kindergarten
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-1999 (ECLS-K): Psychometric report for the eighth grade
A description of the design of the assessments used in the spring 2007 data collection of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study to measure cognitive and social development of children in the eighth grade
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Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class of 1998-99 (ECLS-K): Eighth-grade methodology report
A description of the methodology and surveys used to report on the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study, Kindergarten Class (ECLS-K) of 1998-99, with a focus on sample design and weighting, data collection methods, response rate calculations, and nonresponse bias analyses
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Expanding early childhood care and education: How much does it cost?: A proposal for a methodology to estimate the costs of early childhood care and education at macro-level, applied to the Arab States
A method for calculating the average costs per child per year of providing early childhood care and education services for preschool age children and for infants and toddlers in Arab states
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Family-provider relationship quality: Review of existing measures of family-provider relationships
A review of instruments that measure the quality of family-provider relationships, and a discussion of considerations for the future development of family-provider relationship quality measures
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Guidebook for implementing a study on the dynamics of child care subsidy use
A description of the methodology developed in the course of a five-state longitudinal study, based on administrative data from the child care subsidy program, on the dynamics of child care subsidy use--including characteristics of children and families who receive subsidies, services received, length of subsidy receipt spells, probability of reentry into the subsidy system, and stability of children's care arrangements while they are in the subsidy system--designed as a guide to enable states and researchers to conduct similar studies on this topic
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A guide to calculating the cost of quality early care and education
Instructions for creating accurate estimates of the cost of high-quality early care and education systems, with a case study example from Kansas City
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