Child Care Development Fund allocation information for states and US territories by year. State allocations are based on the following statistics: Population under 5 and under 13 from the Census Bureau; Free and Reduced Price School Lunch Program participation from the Department of Agriculture; and Per Capita Income from the Department of Commerce.

Units of Response: States

Type of Data: Financial

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: Annual

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement Location: Not Applicable

Equity Indicators: Unavailable

Granularity: Tribe

Spatial: Tribes

Geocoding: Tribe

The Child Care and Development Fund Expenditure data is compiled through data reported by States and Territories on the ACF-696 Financial Report.

Units of Response: States

Type of Data: Financial

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: Annual

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement Location: Not Applicable

Equity Indicators: Unavailable

Granularity: State

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: State

States are required by the CCDF Final Rule to ensure that families receiving child care assistance have equal access to comparable care purchased by private-paying parents. A market rate survey (MRS) is a tool States use to achieve this program objective. Some States conduct surveys to collect the child care market rate and others use administrative data, such as data collected by child care resource and referral (CCR&R) and State licensing agencies, to analyze the market rate for child care.
This survey was one strategy used to collect child care market price data. Comparing findings garnered from different methods allows one to evaluate whether different data collection methods produce different price findings (convergent validity) and how well these data collection methods represent the child care market (criterion-related validity). These data can also be used to explore several validity issues of concern with market price studies.

Units of Response: Program

Type of Data: Survey

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: One-time

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Yes

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/rpxlogin

Equity Indicators: Not Applicable

Granularity: Childcare Providers;Individual;Program;Region

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: Unavailable

A two-year experiment, Project Upgrade tests the effectiveness of three different language and literacy interventions, Ready, Set, Leap! (RSL!), Breakthrough to Literacy (BTL) and Building Early Language and Literacy (BELL) implemented in child care centers in Miami-Dade County, Florida, that served children from low-income families. Project Upgrade was intended to answer important questions about the possibility of training child care staff, many of whom have limited education beyond high school, to deliver curricula with fidelity, and about the impact of the training and support on teachers' behavior in children's language development and emergent literacy.

Units of Response: Teacher, Children, Center

Type of Data: Evaluation

Tribal Data: Unavailable

Periodicity: Irregular

SORN: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/19/2022-20139/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records

Data Use Agreement: Yes

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.childandfamilydataarchive.org/cfda/archives/cfda/studies/31061/datadocumentation

Equity Indicators: Sex

Granularity: Childcare Providers;Individual;Program

Spatial: Cities

Geocoding: Unavailable

This survey was one strategy used to collect child care market price data. Comparing findings garnered from different methods allows one to evaluate whether different data collection methods produce different price findings (convergent validity) and how well these data collection methods represent the child care market (criterion-related validity). These data can also be used to explore several validity issues of concern with market price studies.

Units of Response: Program

Type of Data: Survey

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: One-time

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Yes

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/rpxlogin

Equity Indicators: Not Applicable

Granularity: Childcare Providers;Individual;Program;Region

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: Unavailable

The primary objective of this study was to describe current market rate survey methods, practices, and policies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, five territories, and the 28 Native American tribes that conduct their own market rate survey. A market rate survey is a tool to collect up-to-date information on what facilities, within given geographic areas, charge parents for various types of child care. A second objective was to identify the validity issues that emerge from this comparison of current market rate survey practices.

Variables are organized under six specific functions representing the market rate survey process. These were: (1) administration/organization of the market rate survey, (2) facility population and sample, (3) data collection, (4) data analysis, (5) dissemination of the results, and (6) rate setting policy.

Units of Response: Program

Type of Data: Survey

Tribal Data: Yes

Periodicity: One-time

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Yes

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/rpxlogin

Equity Indicators: Geographic Areas;Military

Granularity: Childcare Providers;Individual;State;Tribe

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: Unavailable

The Evaluation of Child Care Subsidy Strategies is a multi-site, multi-year effort to determine whether and how different child care subsidy policies and procedures and quality improvement efforts help low-income parents obtain and hold onto jobs and improve outcomes for children. Funding from the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) administered by the Child Care Bureau are divided into two purposes. The vast majority are aimed at assisting children of low-income working parents whose eligibility is determined by states within broad federal guidelines, while a much smaller portion (4 percent) work with state matching funds to improve the quality of child care for all children. For this study series, four experiments were conducted, two test alternative subsidy policies for low-income families and two test approaches to the use of set-aside funds for improving child care quality for all children. The four study sites and focus of evaluation include: (1) the effectiveness of three language and literacy curricula on teaching practices and children's language and literacy outcomes (Miami Dade County, Florida); (2) the impact of alternative eligibility and re-determination child care subsidy policies on parental employment outcomes (Illinois); (3) the impact of alternative child care co-payment structures on use of child care subsidies and employment outcomes (Washington) and (4) the effectiveness of training on Learning Games curriculum in changing care-giving practices in family child care homes and children's developmental outcomes (Massachusetts).

Units of Response: Washington state families receiving child care subsidies.

Type of Data: Administrative

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: One-time

SORN: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/09/19/2022-20139/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records

Data Use Agreement: Yes

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/29002/datadocumentation

Equity Indicators: Household Income;Household Size;Race

Granularity: Family;Household

Spatial: States

Geocoding: Unavailable

This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or in transition from temporary public assistance, to obtain quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, to attend training or receive education. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 requires states and territories to collect information on all family units receiving assistance through the CCDF and to submit monthly case-level data to the Office of Child Care. States are permitted to report case-level data for the entire population, or a sample of the population, under approved sampling guidelines.

The Summary Records file contains monthly state-level summary information including the number of families served. The Family Records file contains family-level data including single parent status of the head of household, monthly co-payment amount, date on which child care assistance began, reasons for care (e.g., employment, training/education, protective services, etc.), income used to determine eligibility, source of income, and the family size on which eligibility is based. The Child Records file contains child-level data including ethnicity, race, gender, and date of birth. The Setting Records file contains information about the type of child care setting, the total amount paid to the provider, and the total number of hours of care received by the child. The Pooling Factor file provides state-level data on the percentage of child care funds that is provided through the CCDF, the federal Head Start region the grantee (state) is in and is monitored by, and the state FIPS code for the grantee.

Units of Response: United States and Territories, CCDF Family Recipients, CCDF Children Recipients

Type of Data: Administrative

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: Annual

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/rpxlogin

Equity Indicators: Ethnicity;Gender Identity;Household Income;Household Size;Race

Granularity: Family;Individual

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: Tribe

The Massachusetts Family Child Care study is a two-year evaluation, conducted by Abt Associates Inc, the Manpower Development Research Corporation (MDRC) and the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), of the impacts of the LearningGames program on providers and children in family child care. LearningGames is designed to train caregivers to stimulate children's cognitive, language, and social-emotional development through a set of 200 simple games that encourage intensive, one-on-one interactions as a platform that allows the adult to engage the child in meaningful conversation, to listen to the child and respond to the child's questions and actions, and to scaffold and build on the child's growing skills at using and understanding language. The goal of LearningGames is to increase the frequency of rich language interactions between caregivers and children due to the importance of oral language development in children's understanding of words and concepts, in their ability to become competent readers, and in their long-term academic success and of the role played by rich language stimulation in promoting children's development. This evaluation of LearningGames examines the effectiveness of the program in changing the behavior of the family child care providers and the developmental outcomes for the children who are cared for by providers trained on LearningGames.

Units of Response: Massachusetts child care providers.

Type of Data: Administrative

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: One-time

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Yes

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/web/ICPSR/studies/31581/datadocumentation

Equity Indicators: Indigenous Population;Sex

Granularity: Childcare Providers;Individual

Spatial: States

Geocoding: Unavailable

States are required by the CCDF Final Rule to ensure that families receiving child care assistance have equal access to comparable care purchased by private-paying parents. A market rate survey (MRS) is a tool States use to achieve this program objective. Some States conduct surveys to collect the child care market rate and others use administrative data, such as data collected by child care resource and referral (CCR&R) and State licensing agencies, to analyze the market rate for child care.

This survey was one strategy used to collect child care market price data. Comparing findings garnered from different methods allows one to evaluate whether different data collection methods produce different price findings (convergent validity) and how well these data collection methods represent the child care market (criterion-related validity). These data can also be used to explore several validity issues of concern with market price studies.

Units of Response: Program

Type of Data: Survey

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: One-time

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Yes

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/rpxlogin

Equity Indicators: Not Applicable

Granularity: Childcare Providers;Individual;Program;Region

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: Unavailable