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National Survey of Early Care and Education

NCT02188329 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 31436

Last updated 2023-11-08

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Summary

The primary purpose of the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) was to provide a comprehensive snapshot of both the availability and utilization of early care and education in the United States. The main objectives of the study included:

* Providing the first national portrait of the availability of early care and education for the full spectrum of care providers, including householders and providers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
* Identifying early care and education and school-age care (ECE/SA) needs and preferences among households in the United States with children under age 13 as they pertain to supporting both the employment of parents and the development of children.
* Capturing data on all forms of non-parental care for all children in a household.
* Providing the perspectives of both families and providers on the services offered in a system where children are often in multiple arrangements and providers receive funding from multiple sources.
* Linking the data set collected with policy-relevant data.
* Increasing the understanding of the care received by low-income children and how that varies across communities.

The NSECE is a set of four integrated, nationally representative surveys conducted in 2012. These were surveys of 1) households with children under 13, 2) home-based providers 3) center-based providers, and 4) the center-based provider workforce. Together they characterize the supply of and demand for early care and education in America and permit better understanding of how well families' needs and preferences coordinate with providers' offerings and constraints.

Conditions

  • Supply and Demand of Early Care and Education in the US

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation

    collaborator FED

  • Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

    collaborator OTHER

  • Child Trends

    collaborator OTHER

  • Impaq Intl.

    collaborator UNKNOWN

  • National Opinion Research Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Robert M Goerge, PhD · Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2011-11-30
Primary Completion
2012-06-30
Completion
2012-06-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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