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National Survey of America's Families, 1999
Urban Institute, Child Trends , 01/01/2000

A cross-sectional survey of the economic, health, and social characteristics of families in the United States covering such topics as child health care, child well being, child behavior problems, child care use, child education and cognitive development, and child social and emotional development.

Data Sets

National Survey of America's Families, 1997
Urban Institute, Child Trends , 01/01/1999

A cross-sectional survey of the economic, health, and social characteristics of families in the United States including such topics as child health care, child well being, child behavior problems, child care use, child education and cognitive development, and child social and emotional development.

Data Sets

Who are the eligible non-recipients of child care subsidies?
Herbst, Chris M. , 09/01/2008

A portrait of the population of families eligible for but not receiving child care subsidies through Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) projects

Reports & Papers

Child care subsidies and the employment of single mothers
Guzman, Julio , 03/01/2009

An examination of the relationship between child care subsidies on and the employment of single mothers after 1996 based on data collected in 1999 and 2002 from the National Survey of America's Families and an examination of the relationship between free public kindergarten for 5-year-old children's and employment for different groups of mothers and groups of states based on data from the 2005, 2006 and 2007 rounds of the American Community Survey

Reports & Papers

Children in low-income families are less likely to be in center-based child care
Capizzano, Jeffrey, Adams, Gina , 01/01/2004

A brief comparing the child care arrangements of children under five from high- and low-income families.

Fact Sheets & Briefs

National Survey of America's Families. 2002 NSAF questionnaire
Abi-Habib, Natalie, Safir, Adam, Triplett, Timothy, Cunningham, Pat , 01/01/2004

A report of the 2002 National Survey of America’s Families questionnaire as well as full text, the household screener and extended interview, a description of respondent selection, types of interviews, and family definition as well as differences in survey instrumentation between the 1999 and 2002

Other

Many young children spend long hours in child care
Capizzano, Jeffrey, Main, Regan , 01/01/2005

A fact sheet examining the number of hours that children under age five with working mothers typically spend in nonparental child care, using data from the National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) 2002.

Fact Sheets & Briefs

Assessing the New Federalism
Weil, Alan ,

A multi-year, multi-pronged project that analyzes state policy choices (including policy development and implementation) and family well-being in the context of the significant devolution of responsibility for social programs from the federal government to the states

Major Research Projects

Guide to datasets for research and policymaking in child care and early education
Romero, Mariajose, Douglas-Hall, Ayana , 01/01/2009

An annotated bibliography of existing large-scale datasets that provide useful information to policymakers, researchers, and others in the field of child care and early education in the United States

Other

Child care and children with special needs: Challenges for low income families: Final report
Ward, Helen D., Morris, Lisa M., Atkins, Julie, Herrick, Angela, Morris, Patricia, Oldham, Erin , 12/01/2006

A multi-method study, focusing predominantly on Maine, of the challenges and barriers facing low-income working families with special needs children in finding and retaining child care services and in balancing work and family, based on parent interviews and focus groups, a field study, a child care provider survey, a parent survey, and an analysis of data from the 1997, 1999, and 2002 rounds of the National Survey of America's Families

Reports & Papers