ISPAN Early Care and Education Facility Survey on Nutrition and Physical Activity Environments and Practices, Illinois, December 2019-February 2020, October-November 2022 (ICPSR 39128)
Version Date: Oct 14, 2025 View help for published
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Jamie F. Chriqui, University of Illinois at Chicago
https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR39128.v1
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The Illinois State Physical Activity and Nutrition (ISPAN) Early Care and Education (ECE) Facility Survey is a repeated cross-sectional survey. It was designed and fielded by researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago in collaboration with the Illinois Public Health Institute (IPHI) and the Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (INCCRRA), in order to capture nutrition and physical-activity related environments and practices and professional development and training activities of early childcare and education sites throughout Illinois in December 2019-February 2020 and October-November 2022.
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Geographic Coverage View help for Geographic Coverage
Smallest Geographic Unit View help for Smallest Geographic Unit
ZIP code
Restrictions View help for Restrictions
This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, the data files in this collection are restricted from general dissemination. To obtain these restricted files, researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of a Restricted Data Use Agreement.
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Data Collection Notes View help for Data Collection Notes
- For additional information on ISPAN, please visit the Illinois Public Health Institute website.
- An earlier version of this dataset is available through openICPSR.
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Contextual covariates at the zip code level were linked from the American Community Survey 2013-2017 5-year estimates and Federal Office of Rural Health Policy data on rurality.
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Responses were anonymous and information identifying individual sites has been removed from the data.
Study Purpose View help for Study Purpose
The purpose of the study is to measure nutrition and physical activity environments and practices and professional development and training activities at ECE sites across Illinois.
Study Design View help for Study Design
The study was advertised via emails to the Illinois Network of Child Care Resource and Referral Agencies (INCCRRA) statewide list of centers and family day care homes, the most current list available, as well as Facebook posts by INCCRRA and individual Child Care Resource and Referral agencies.
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Universe View help for Universe
All centers and family day care homes in Illinois.
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Description of Variables View help for Description of Variables
The data includes variables about:
- Weekly Rates
- Indoor and Outdoor Playtime
- Menus
- Training
- Roles at Center
Response Rates View help for Response Rates
- The 2019-2020 survey was sent to 7347 sites on INCCRRA's list and 942 (13%) eligible completed responses were received.
- The 2022 survey was sent to 7718 sites on INCCRRA's list and 1212 (16%) eligible completed responses were received.
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Analytical variables were computed based on survey responses measuring:
- The extent to which ECE sites met best practices from Caring for Our Children
- The Go Nutrition Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (Go NAPSACC)
- The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)
- The extent to which they met state licensing standards 406 (for family homes), 407 (for centers), and 408 (for group homes)
Original Release Date View help for Original Release Date
2025-10-14
Version History View help for Version History
2025-10-14 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
- Performed consistency checks.
- Created variable labels and/or value labels.
- Created online analysis version with question text.
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