Find resources from the NSECE Project Team, including chartbooks and snapshots of descriptive data from the NSECE surveys
The Home-based Listed Provider Quick Tabulation File released in early 2021 contained errors in two variables: HB9_ENRL_NHASIAN_NUMCH and HB9_ENRL_NHOTHER_NUMCH. The variable names for this pair of variables were swapped in earlier versions of the data files. The variable names have been…
This NSECE snapshot examines child care and early education cost burdens for households that used regular CCEE and had at least 1 child under age 5 (0 to 59 months). (author abstract)
This research snapshot describes characteristics of households with young children, including the work schedules of parents during a reference week in 2019. We also compare statistically significant differences in findings between parental work schedules in 2012 and 2019. We describe how work…
This chartbook presents nationally representative estimates of center-based providers serving children age 5 and under, not yet in kindergarten, using data from the 2012 and 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE). The chartbook features: Counts of center-based providers,…
This chartbook presents nationally representative estimates of all home-based care to children under age 13, using data from the 2012 and 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE). Home-based providers discussed in the report include both paid and unpaid providers of care. Three…
In the U.S. in 2012, public funding of early care and education (ECE) could come from a variety of programs and levels of government (federal, state, local). This snapshot uses household reports to estimate percentages of children younger than 60 months who enrolled in that year in two types of…
Nonparental care (NPC) for children before they enter kindergarten has had two primary purposes for American families since the start of the twentieth century: supporting parental employment and providing children developmentally enriching out-of-home experiences. Today's policy makers are…
The extensive tables in this document describe four main aspects of households' use of nonparental care: types of care, combinations of types of care, hours of care, and parents' out of pocket costs for care. These aspects are reported by child age, by household characteristics such as the…
This research snapshot describes work schedules of parents of young children during a reference week in 2012. We describe how work schedules differ for households of different income levels; between one-parent and two-parent families; and in households where neither, one, or both parents work.…