2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education

Completed

Conditions studied: Children Under 13

In brief

The primary purpose of the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) is to provide a comprehensive picture of both the availability and utilization of early care and education (ECE) in the United States. This study builds on the work of the 2012 NSECE which was the first nationally-representative survey of ECE providers, workers, and households with young children in more than 20 years. Multiple policy and programmatic changes affecting the supply and quality of ECE have been implemented since the last fielding of the NSECE, making this an ideal time to re-map the ECE landscape. The main objectives of the 2019 study include: * Updating the national portrait of the availability of early care and education for the full spectrum of care providers, including householders and providers from all 50 states and the District of Columbia. * Identifying early care and education needs and preferences among households in the United States with children under age 13 as they pertain to supporting both the employment of parents and the development of children. * Capturing data on all forms of non-parental care for all children in a household. * Providing the perspectives of both families and providers on the services offered in a system where children are often in multiple arrangements and providers receive funding from multiple sources. * Linking the data set collected with policy-relevant data. * Increasing the understanding of the care received by low-income children and how that varies across communities. The 2019 NSECE consists of a set of four integrated, nationally representative surveys being conducted between January and June 2019. There are surveys of 1) households with children under 13, 2) home-based providers 3) center-based providers, and 4) the center-based provider workforce. Together they characterize the use and availability of early care and education in America and permit better understanding of how well families' needs and preferences coordinate with providers' offerings and constraints. The 2019 NSECE is collecting information in a manner that facilitates comparisons with data collected for the 2012 NSECE and that allows for examination of the changes in the characteristics of households and their use of non-parental care and the changing landscape of ECE programs during that seven-year period.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03947593

Run by

National Opinion Research Center

People needed

25190

Starts

2018-11-13

Expected to finish

2019-07-27

Last updated by the study team

2019-08-26

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Households with at least one child under the age of 13.
• Individuals who care for a child under 13 who is not their own in a home-based setting for at least five hours a week.
• Center-based ECE programs that provide care to children not yet in kindergarten who were identified from the provider sampling frame built from state or national administrative lists such as state licensing lists.
• Respondents for the center-based workforce survey are selected from the list of instructional staff associated with the randomly selected classroom from the center-based provider interview.

Where it is running

• NORC at the University of Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States

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