Find resources that use the NSECE data to explore research questions relevant to the child care and early education field
This series of studies seeks to broaden the understanding of the diverse home-based child care provider workforce through identifying categories of providers based on their beliefs about caregiving and their practices with children and families. Seven million children from birth to five receive…
This brief provides new national estimates of recent early childhood expulsion rates in a range of center-based early learning settings using data from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE), indicating how characteristics of early care and education (ECE) centers relate to the…
We analyze data from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to (1) document the parental preferences and child care arrangements of immigrant families with young children; (2) determine the factors that predict immigrant families' child care settings, including the relative…
Quality child care appears to have a positive effect on the school readiness of children with low incomes, and child care subsidy programs encourage parents to make informed decisions about choosing quality child care. However, research on child care decision making suggests that most parents do…
We examined parents' perceptions of different types of child care arrangements and whether relatives (and other adults living with them) are available to provide care to those parents' children. More specifically, using data from the 2012 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE), we…
In this brief, we provide a national snapshot of ECE participation among low-income Hispanic households. We use publicly available data from the 2012 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to describe the percentage of young children in low-income Hispanic households who are in non-…
In this brief, we use publicly available data from the 2012 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to describe the amount and timing of hours that young Hispanic children from low-income households spend in ECE settings, distinguishing care that takes place during standard weekday…
This study discusses the low wages of the early childhood workforce, examines racial disparities in wages and workforce supports based on data from the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE), and provides recommendations.
This report focuses on achieving quality ECE by ensuring that its workforce is well-compensated, appropriately educated, diverse, and culturally competent. It looks particularly at strategies for maintaining diversity while transforming the industry so that it provides quality jobs and quality…
The analyses presented in this brief describe the professional development activities of the nation's infant/toddler (I/T) workforce, based on nationally-representative data collected by the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE; NSECE Project Team, 2012). The goal of this brief is…