This document reports the results of two coordinated studies of early education and care in the United States. Information on child care demand was provided through the National Child Care...
This report examines the care arrangements of children under age 13 who are in families with annual incomes below $15,000 using nationally representative data from the National Child Care Survey 1990 and its low-income-data supplement.
One of the most important findings in the literature on child-care quality is that type of care and quality do not have a simple, one-to-one relationship with each other, regardless of whether quality is measured objectively, ...
Children do better in centers that are neat, clean, safe, and orderly, that are organized into interest areas and oriented toward children's activities (Clarke-Stewart, 1987; Howes, 1983; Prescott & David, 1976).
Nebraska Preschool Child Care, 1990: A Survey of Parents on Access to Quality Child Care
The National Household Education Survey (NHES) collects data on the educational activities of the United States population. NHES is designed as a telephone survey of the noninstitutionalized population of the...
Drawing from new findings, this book presents important conclusions about nature-versus-nurture, the impact of being born into a working family, the effect of politics on programs for children, the costs and benefits of intervention, and ...
oo Scudy Methods/ Sample Size National Child Care Survey (1990) Low-Income Substudy of the National Child Care Survey (1993) The Study of Children in Family Child Care and Relative Care (1994) Life in Preschool (1993) Telephone survey; ...
Abt Associates Inc. (1990). National child care survey: Main study and low-income substudy (final report on survey methods). Cambridge, MA: Author. Brayfield, A. (1992, September). Child care costs as ...
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