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2024 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) Longitudinal Follow-ups

NCT07020585 · Status: ACTIVE_NOT_RECRUITING · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 10000

Last updated 2025-06-13

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Summary

The National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) captures families' needs, preferences, and choices of non-parental care for children under age 13 and providers' child care and early education offerings. Since the NSECE was conducted in 2019, the landscape of ECE has changed dramatically. Funding for early childhood programming has grown as policymakers recognize the important role access to ECE plays for families as a work support for parents and an investment in children's future educational and economic opportunities. At the same time, beginning in 2020, the nation experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to significant shifts in the U.S. economy. These circumstances likely altered parents' use of ECE and the labor market and economic forces in which ECE providers operate. The 2024 NSECE builds on findings from the 2012 and 2019 NSECE to allow for comparisons of supply and demand of child care and early education over the 12 years that span data collection.

The 2024 NSECE Follow-up studies build on findings from the 2024 NSECE to allow for more in-depth information on how families search for and select care for their children, as well as an understanding of workforce career trajectories. The 2024 NSECE Follow-up studies aim to inform future policy discussions about child care and early education at the local, state, and national levels by providing data to:

* Build on the data collected in 2024 to collect additional and more in-depth data.
* Capture how low-income households learn about and make use of financial assistance in seeking and selecting ECE, with additional focus on paid individual care arrangements.
* Document patterns of retention and attrition among individuals in the center based ECE workforce.

Conditions

  • Children Under 13

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Office of Planning, Research & Evaluation

    collaborator FED

  • National Opinion Research Center

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Rupa Datta, PhD · NORC at the University of Chicago

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-01-06
Primary Completion
2025-12-31
Completion
2026-03-31

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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