Child Care Market Rate Survey Project: Mail Survey of Oregon Facilities, 2006 (ICPSR 23260)
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Deana Grobe, Oregon State University
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https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23260.v2
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Starting with the Family Support Act of 1988, requirements for federal funding stipulate that child care subsidy rates be informed by market rates. In 1990 the federal government began a major investment in child care with the passage of the Child Care and Development Block Grant Act of 1990. Support of parental choice was a key component of this new block grant program that sent new money to states to support child care. Parental choice and state control of policy remained central when the program was expanded in 1996 as a part of welfare reform legislation. At that time, child care funding became known as the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF).
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.
The major areas of investigation in this survey include child care prices by type of care, geographic location, and price mode (hourly, daily, weekly, monthly). Other areas of investigation include capacity by age group, additional fees facilities charge, whether they care for subsidized children, and what affects the prices that they charge parents.
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Users are reminded that these data are to be used solely for statistical reporting and analysis, and not for the investigation of specific facilities. To protect respondent privacy, the public-use and restricted-use versions of the data differ in the amount of geographic detail provided. The Restricted-Use Version contains the variables COUNTY and ZIPCODE while the Public-Use Version does not.
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Mail survey with separate surveys for family and center facilities.
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Stratified random sample by geographic region (regions A, B, and C) and by facility type (family child care and center, including large family child care).
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Facilities that were providing care for any children other than their own, on a regular paying basis.
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66 percent
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2009-03-05
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- Grobe, Deana. Child Care Market Rate Survey Project: Mail Survey of Oregon Facilities, 2006. ICPSR23260-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-02-05. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR23260.v2
2010-12-16 The Restricted Data Use Agreement has been updated.
2010-02-05 The Restricted Data Use Agreement was updated.
2009-06-18 The Restricted Data Use Agreement has been added.
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This study is maintained and distributed by the Child and Family Data Archive (CFData). CFData hosts datasets about young children, their families and communities, and the programs that serve them. CFData is supported by Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), an office of the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.