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 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) documents the nation’s current utilization and availability of child care and early education (including school-age care) in order to deepen the understanding of the extent to which families’ needs and preferences coordinate well with providers’ offerings and constraints. The experiences of low-income families with young children are of special interest, as they are the focus of a significant component of early care and education/school-age (ECE/SA) public policy. The NSECE collects data through a set of integrated, nationally representative surveys including interviews in all 50 states and Washington, D.C.

Units of Response: Households, Early Care and Educaiton Provider, early childhood workforce

Type of Data: Survey

Tribal Data: Unavailable

Periodicity: Irregular

SORN: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/04/02/2015-07440/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records-notice

Data Use Agreement: Yes

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.childandfamilydataarchive.org/cfda/archives/cfda/studies/35519

Equity Indicators: Disability;Ethnicity;Gender Identity;Household Income;Housing Status;Indigenous Population;Military;Race;Sex

Granularity: Childcare Providers;Classroom;Family;Household;Individual;Nation;Program;State

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: County;State

The 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (2019 NSECE) is a set of four nationally-representative integrated surveys conducted in 2019 of 1) households with children under age 13, 2) home-based early care and education (ECE) providers, 3) center-based ECE providers, and 4) the center-based ECE provider workforce. Together these four surveys characterize the supply of and demand for ECE in the United States and create a better understanding of how well families' needs and preferences coordinate with providers' offerings and constraints. The NSECE surveys make particular effort to measure the experiences of low-income families, as these families are the focus of a significant component of ECE and school-age public policy.

The NSECE was first conducted in 2012. Before that effort, there had been a 20-year long absence of nationally representative data on the use and availability of ECE. The NSECE was conducted again in 2019 to update the information from 2012 and shed light on how the ECE and school-age care landscape changed from 2012 to 2019. The 2019 NSECE followed a similar design as the 2012 survey, including surveying households with children under age 13, home-based providers, center-based providers, and staff working in center-based classrooms.

Units of Response: Households, Early Care and Education Providers, early childhood workforce

Type of Data: Survey

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: Irregular

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

Data Use Agreement: Unavailable

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.childandfamilydataarchive.org/cfda/archives/cfda/studies/37941/datadocumentation

Equity Indicators: Disability;Ethnicity;Gender Identity;Geographic Areas;Household Income;Housing Status;Indigenous Population;Military;Race;Sex

Granularity: Childcare Providers;Classroom;Family;Household;Individual;Nation;State

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: Not Applicable