As of 2019, 62.5 percent of children ages three to five that had any nonparental care in the United States were in center based programs. 22.7 percent of three to five year old children were in the care of a relative in that same year.

Graph and download economic data for All Employees, Child Care Services (CES6562440001) from Jan 1985 to Aug 2025 about day care, health, child, establishment survey, education, services, employment, and USA.

The Child Care and Development Fund statistics are compiled through data reported by States and Territories on the ACF-800--Annual Aggregate Child Care Data Report and ACF-801—Monthly Child Care Data Report. Units of Response: CCDF Agencies Type of Data: Administrative Tribal Data: No Periodicity: Annual Demographic Indicators: Disability;Ethnicity;Housing Status;Race SORN: Not Applicable Data Use Agreement: Unavailable Data Use Agreement Location: Unavailable Granularity: State;U.S. Territory Spatial: United States Geocoding: State

Number and percentage of children aged 0 to 5 years participating in early learning and child care.

Number of child care providers by centre-based, licensed home-based and unlicensed home-based child care business for children 5 years and younger. The data are available at the national and provincial level.

This table contains data on the number of licensed day care center slots (facility capacity) per 1,000 children aged 0-5 years in California, its regions, counties, cities, towns, and census tracts. The table contains 2015 data, and includes type of facility (day care center or infant center). Access to child care has become a critical support for working families. Many working families find high-quality child care unaffordable, and the increasing cost of child care can be crippling for low-income families and single parents. These barriers can impact parental choices of child care. Increased availability of child care facilities can positively impact families by providing more choices of child care in terms of price and quality. Estimates for this indicator are provided for the total population, and are not available by race/ethnicity. More information on the data table and a data dictionary can be found in the Data and Resources section. The licensed day care centers table is part of a series of indicators in the Healthy Communities Data and Indicators Project (HCI) of the Office of Health Equity. The goal of HCI is to enhance public health by providing data, a standardized set of statistical measures, and tools that a broad array of sectors can use for planning healthy communities and evaluating the impact of plans, projects, policy, and environmental changes on community health. The creation of healthy social, economic, and physical environments that promote healthy behaviors and healthy outcomes requires coordination and collaboration across multiple sectors, including transportation, housing, education, agriculture and others. Statistical metrics, or indicators, are needed to help local, regional, and state public health and partner agencies assess community environments and plan for healthy communities that optimize public health. More information on HCI can be found here: https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/OHE/CDPH%20Document%20Library/Accessible%202%20CDPH_Healthy_Community_Indicators1pager5-16-12.pdf

The format of the licensed day care centers table is based on the standardized data format for all HCI indicators. As a result, this data table contains certain variables used in the HCI project (e.g., indicator ID, and indicator definition). Some of these variables may contain the same value for all observations.

Number and percentage of children aged 0 to 5 years participating in early learning and child care arrangements, by type of arrangement (for example, daycare centers and family home child care), and by age group.

Vermont Child Care Provider Data including location, capacity, mailing list data and contact information, updated monthly. Data reflects the last complete month prior to the most recent update.

The ACF-800 aggregate data are collected annually. States and territories submit their annual aggregate data electronically to the Child Care Automated Reporting System (CARS) by December 31st (three months after fiscal years ends).

Units of Response: CCDF Lead Agencies

Type of Data: Administrative

Tribal Data: No

COVID-19 Data: Yes

Periodicity: Annual

SORN: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/04/02/2015-07440/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records-notice

Data Use Agreement: Unavailable

Data Use Agreement Location: Unavailable

Equity Indicators: Not Applicable

Granularity: State

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: Zip Code

Proportion of annual after-tax family income spent on child care, by economic family type and age of youngest child, Canada.

The Monthly Child Care Services Data Report - Children Served by County data set includes demographic data of children receiving Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) assistance. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Child Care (OCC) collects data regarding the children and families served through the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) as well as the types of child care settings and facilities providing services. Each quarterly data set contains data aggregated by county for each month of the quarter. Counts less than 5 are masked with an asterisk (*) to protect the confidentiality of individuals in this report.

The Monthly Child Care Services Data Report - Child Care Facilities data set includes the list of child care facilities and quality ratings providing services to children receiving Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) assistance. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Child Care (OCC) collects data regarding the children and families served through the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) as well as the types of child care settings and facilities providing services. Each quarterly data set contains data for each month of the quarter.

The Monthly Child Care Services Data Report - Families Served by County data set includes demographic data of parents and families of children receiving Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) assistance. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) Office of Child Care (OCC) collects data regarding the children and families served through the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) as well as the types of child care settings and facilities providing services. Each quarterly data set contains data aggregated by county for each month of the quarter. Counts less than 5 are masked with an asterisk (*) to protect the confidentiality of individuals in this report.

Information on OCFS regulated child care programs, which includes program overview information and violation history.

Users can get data on child care programs and child care expenditures. Background The Child Care Bureau is housed under the Office of Family Assistance portion of the Administration of Children and Families. The Child Care Bureau’s purpose is to promote access to affordable, high quality child care and after-school programs. Through the administration of the Child Care and Development Fund, the Child Care Bureau provides financial assistance to low-income families and oversees the implementation of state child care policies and programs. User Functionality The website provides a variety of information regarding the administration, laws and regulations of the Child Care and Development Fund. All the information is available for download in Word or PDF formats. Users can also view data tables regarding child care program statistics and Care and Development Expenditures. Child care program statistics includes information about number of children and families served, and percentages by age group, race/ ethnicity, payment method or type and place of care. Information is organized by state. All data tables can be downloaded as Excel files of PDF files. Data Notes Data tables are available for each year since 1998. The most recent data available is from 2008.

The primary objective of this study was to describe current market rate survey methods, practices, and policies in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, five territories, and the 28 Native American tribes that conduct their own market rate survey. A market rate survey is a tool to collect up-to-date information on what facilities, within given geographic areas, charge parents for various types of child care. A second objective was to identify the validity issues that emerge from this comparison of current market rate survey practices.

Variables are organized under six specific functions representing the market rate survey process. These were: (1) administration/organization of the market rate survey, (2) facility population and sample, (3) data collection, (4) data analysis, (5) dissemination of the results, and (6) rate setting policy.

Units of Response: Program

Type of Data: Survey

Tribal Data: Yes

Periodicity: One-time

Demographic Indicators: Geographic Areas;Military

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Yes

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/rpxlogin

Granularity: Childcare Providers;Individual;State;Tribe

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: Unavailable

This administrative dataset provides descriptive information about the families and children served through the federal Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF). CCDF dollars are provided to states, territories, and tribes to provide assistance to low-income families receiving or in transition from temporary public assistance, to obtain quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, to attend training or receive education. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 requires states and territories to collect information on all family units receiving assistance through the CCDF and to submit monthly case-level data to the Office of Child Care. States are permitted to report case-level data for the entire population, or a sample of the population, under approved sampling guidelines. The Summary Records file contains monthly state-level summary information including the number of families served. The Family Records file contains family-level data including single parent status of the head of household, monthly co-payment amount, date on which child care assistance began, reasons for care (e.g., employment, training/education, protective services, etc.), income used to determine eligibility, source of income, and the family size on which eligibility is based. The Child Records file contains child-level data including ethnicity, race, gender, and date of birth. The Setting Records file contains information about the type of child care setting, the total amount paid to the provider, and the total number of hours of care received by the child. The Pooling Factor file provides state-level data on the percentage of child care funds that is provided through the CCDF, the federal Head Start region the grantee (state) is in and is monitored by, and the state FIPS code for the grantee.

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.

Units of Response: Program

Type of Data: Survey

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: One-time

Demographic Indicators: Not Applicable

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Yes

Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/rpxlogin

Granularity: Childcare Providers;Individual;Program;Region

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: Unavailable

Extreme Child Care Access Deserts (ECCADs) are Zip Code Tabulated Areas (ZCTAs) that have too few licensed early learning providers for the estimated population of children. ECCADs shows a lack of providers by eligibility category, alongside the estimated rate of children receiving Early Care and Education (ECE) services, as compared to the total population of eligible children (referred to as Uptake Estimates) by ZCTA. The Persistence map helps show which ZCTAs are frequently categorized as an ECCAD by month. DCYF’s Office of Innovation, Alignment, and Accountability (OIAA) makes use of the definition and methodology for Extreme Child Care Access Deserts developed in Massachusetts. For reference on the methodology, see Hardy et al. 2018 Research Report: Subsidized Child Care in Massachusetts: Exploring geography, access, and equity. This data set comes from the Child Care and Early Learning: Extreme Child Care Access Deserts & Uptake Estimates dashboard (https://dcyf.wa.gov/practice/oiaa/reports/early-learning-dashboards/eccad)

Difficulty for parents and guardians in finding an early learning and child care arrangement, children aged 0 to 5 years.