The following table—listing all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico—provides the actual distribution of grant year (GY) 2023 discretionary funds; the estimated distribution of the proposed $4.38 billion increase in annual discretionary CCDBG funding for fiscal year (FY) 2024; the estimated increase in funding above GY 2023 actual funding; and the estimated number of additional children who could be served with that increase. The increases in funding for states range from an additional $5 million in Wyoming to $482 million in Texas. (author abstract)
Reports from the National Survey of Early Care and Education Project
The COVID-19 pandemic imposed heavy health-related and economic stressors that disproportionately affected Black and Hispanic women. Given the racial/ethnic differences in the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic, it makes sense to investigate for potentially distinct experiences across races/…
This study analyzes factors that shape the attrition of listed home-based providers by comparing the characteristics of stayers and leavers. Combining survey data from the 2012 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) with administrative data from state lists of home-based child care…
This chartbook presents nationally representative estimates of all Workers in Center-based Early Care and Education (ECE) classrooms educating children age 5 years and under, not yet in kindergarten. Using data from the 2012 and 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE), the…
This chartbook draws from data collected in the 2019 NSECE Center-based Provider Survey and 2019 NSECE Workforce Survey. In the NSECE, a center-based provider delivers CCEE services to children age five and under, not yet in kindergarten, at a single location. Center-based providers were…
Analyses of NSECE COVID-19 Longitudinal Follow-up data indicate the percentage of 2019 center-based CCEE workers who were working in CCEE in February 2020 (prior to the pandemic), the percentage who were working in CCEE in October 2020 (seven months into the pandemic), and the percentage who…
Many parents in the U.S. look for high-quality child care and early education (CCEE) to ensure their children’s safety and development and fully participate in the labor market. To meet that demand, there must be an adequate supply of CCEE services within the geographic reach of these families.…
This chartbook draws from data collected in the 2012 and 2019 NSECE Household Surveys. The household interview respondent was a parent or guardian of a child or children under age 13 in households with at least one member child under age 13. This chartbook focuses on children age under 60 months…
This infographic presents estimates of receipt of subsidies in center-based CCEE using data from the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE). It provides the proportion of centers receiving subsidies and the average number of children served at each center by subsidy density. (…
This snapshot examines the role of faith-based organizations in center-based CCEE, either through sponsorship or by providing space to programs that they do not sponsor. Two questionnaire items from the 2019 NSECE were used to characterize each center’s relationship with faith-based…
This snapshot describes the 2020 employment experiences of 1.35 million individuals who were teachers, lead teachers, assistants and aides in center-based CCEE provider classrooms in 2019. Data come from interviews conducted in the first three months of 2021 with participants in the 2019 NSECE…
Studies Using NSECE Data
Access to high-quality early care and education (ECE) arrangements supports children’s development and households’ economic well-being, a link that may be especially critical to understand for children in Hispanic households with low incomes. Using data from the 2019 National Survey of Early…
This snapshot provides updated findings about parents’ child care and early education (CCEE) search and decision-making using the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) Household (HH) Survey. We present findings on (1) the prevalence of CCEE searches among household…
The Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce project aims to increase knowledge and understanding about child care and early education (CCEE) by documenting factors that drive turnover and by building evidence on current initiatives to bolster a qualified CCEE…
Searching for child care is an important stage of the parental child care decision-making process. Although previous studies have identified a series of factors related to parents’ child care decision-making, little is known parents’ child care search processes. Using the 2012 National…
Insufficient wages and unequal pay create challenges in attracting and retaining highquality early educators, critical for young children’s success in early care and education (ECE) programs. While ECE professional wages are already lower than similar workers, there may be wage disparities based…
As a result of patchwork policies, early childhood education (ECE) providers combine funding from multiple sources, known as blended funding. However, little is known about the consequences of blended funding for policy goals. We use national ECE provider data to identify the prevalence of…
Given the importance of health insurance coverage for health, social, and economic outcomes, it is vital to understand health insurance coverage among CCEE teachers. In this snapshot, we used data from the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to compare the health…
In this brief, we use data from the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to report on the affordability of child care for a national sample of Latino households with low income who used nonparental care arrangements on a regular basis (at least 5 hours per week) for children…
In this brief, we use data from the 2019 National Survey of Early Care of Education (NSECE) to describe, on a national level, several aspects of ECE provider availability and flexibility that may influence how accessible these providers are to Latino households, including those with low incomes…
The UMass Boston Early Education CUSP is led by a multidisciplinary team that designed the simulator and uses it to produce current, relevant, accurate, and responsive estimates about the key impacts of proposed legislation to expand access to affordable, quality child care and early education.…
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User Guides, Training Webinars, and Methodological Reports
This methodological brief describes how enrollment and vacancies at center-based CCEE programs can be estimated using data from the 2019 NSECE. This brief also documents differences between centers’ operating capacity, defined as the sum of a given center’s enrollment and vacancies, and their…
This is a presentation of the possibilities and limitations to the incorporation of geographic variables into analyses of the National Survey of Early Care and Education datasets. Presenters discuss the community characteristic, national, regional, state, county cluster, and provider cluster…
This resource provides guidance to data users interested in using the 2019 NSECE to examine questions related to ECE access using a multi-dimensional, family-centric definition of access. Access to ECE is best understood as a multi-dimensional construct requiring the consideration of multiple…
This guide is a tool for users of the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) center-based provider public-use data files. NSECE sample design and data collection methods are summarized, along with documentation and data file conventions. It includes guidance on analyzing center…
The Home-based Unlisted 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 is an addendum to the guide for users of the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) home-based provider public-use data file. This addendum documents the corrected version of eight variables that contained errors in the original release.
This report provides information about the 2019 NSECE sample design, key elements of its four component surveys, and other unique survey features, and explains how it compares to the 2012 NSECE. A detailed appendix provides information about the data collection methodologies used in the 2019…
This document applies to analyses using L2 data from the 2012 NSECE, the 2019 NSECE, and both the 2012 and 2019 NSECE. It describes the four phases involved in using the L2 data, from applying for access to the data to extracting your research results. (author abstract)
This guide is a tool for users of the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) household public-use data files. NSECE sample design and data collection methods are summarized, along with documentation and data file conventions. It includes guidance on analyzing household survey…
Introduction. Prior to 1980, U.S. national demographic and health data collection did not identify individuals of Hispanic/ Latina/o heritage as a population group. Post-1990, robust immigration from Latin America (e.g., South America, Central America, Mexico) and subsequent growth in U.S.…