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Resource Type: Reports & Papers
Title: The number of child care arrangements used by children under five: Variation across states
Author(s): Capizzano, Jeffrey, Adams, Gina
Date Issued: 2000
Source: (Series B, No. B-12). Washington, DC: Urban Institute.
Publisher(s): Urban Institute
Funder(s): Annie E. Casey Foundation, W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, Ford Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, David & Lucile Packard Foundation, McKnight Foundation, Commonwealth Fund, Stuart Foundation, Weingart Foundation, Fund for New Jersey (Foundation), Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, Joyce Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation
Note: This resource is part of the Assessing the New Federalism project.
Description: A study of the number of child care arrangements used by children under age five and the variation in this number by state, child's age, and the income status of the child's family.
Subject Descriptors: Center Based Child Care, Child Care Arrangements, Family Child Care, Infants, Informal Child Care, Low Income Working Families, Multiple Arrangements, Preschool Children, Toddlers, Working Mothers
Country: United States
State: ALABAMA, CALIFORNIA, FLORIDA, MASSACHUSETTS, MICHIGAN, MINNESOTA, MISSISSIPPI, NEW JERSEY, NEW YORK, TEXAS, WASHINGTON, WISCONSIN
Unit Of Analysis: Individual (child)
Universe: Preschool children under age five with employed mothers who have a nonparental child care arrangement, nationally and across 12 states.
Research Design: Non-experimental
Research Questions: This study examined the number, type and specific combinations of child care arrangements used by children under five years of age whose mothers are employed and use non-parental child care. Variations by state, child's age and income status (i.e., children in families above and below 200% of the federal poverty level) were also explored.
Analytic Technique: Descriptive statistics (frequencies and percentages) were calculated from data for different subgroups and compared to each other.
Findings: Nationally, 38% of children under five in nonparental care had more than one regular child care arrangement, and 8% had three or more arrangements. There was relatively little variation from these averages by state. Infants and toddlers were less often in multiple care arrangements than 3- and 4-year-olds both nationally and in almost all states. Low-income children were no more likely to be in multiple nonparental care arrangements than higher-income children both nationally and in most states. Most of the children in multiple care arrangements were in a combination of ''formal'' (e.g., center-based or family child care) and ''informal'' (e.g., relatives or in-home care) arrangements.
Date Of Collection: 1997
Report Dataset Characteristics: Data were drawn from the 1997 National Survey of America's Families (NSAF), a national telephone survey of over 44,000 households that is representative of the non-institutionalized, civilian population of persons under age 65 in the nation as a whole and in 13 focal states (only 12 used for this study). The survey over-sampled low-income families and followed a cross-sectional time methods. In each sampled household, one child was randomly selected as the subject of the child care questions. The sample for this study was a subset of 3,974 children, including at least 214 from each of 12 focal states, that met the following criteria: the child was under five and used non-parental care; the mother was employed; and the interview was conducted during non-summer months. The report does not indicate whether all households in sample who met criteria were included in subgroup. 46% of the households in the sample subgroup were low-income, and 51% of the children were under age three. The response rate was not specified in the report for the report sample or the larger survey sample.
Geographic Unit: State, National
Geographic Coverage: Country
Period Coverage: 1997
Peer Reviewed?: no
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