Description & Citation--Study No. 4379
Bibliographic Description |
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Study No.: |
4379 |
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Title: |
Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2001 |
Alternate Title: |
ACF 801 Data, 2001 |
Principal Investigator(s): |
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Funding: |
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Child Care Bureau |
Bibliographic Citation: |
United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Child Care Bureau. Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2001. ICPSR04379-v3. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-02-05. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04379.v3 |
Series: |
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Administrative Data Series |
Scope of Study |
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Summary: |
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 transitioning from temporary public assistance, in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, 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 Child Care Bureau. States are permitted to report case-level data for the entire population or a sample of the population, under approved sampling guidelines. These sample files were created using the data that were current as of December 12, 2003. 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, and source of income. 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 are provided through the CCDF. |
Subject Terms: |
administrative records, age groups, child care, Child Care and Development Fund, children, families, marital status, race, welfare reform, working poor |
Geographic Coverage: |
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Time Period: |
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Date of Collection: |
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Unit of Observation: |
children and families |
Universe: |
Children and families receiving assistance through the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), through their state, territory, or tribe |
Data Types: |
administrative records data |
Data Collection Notes: |
States continually review the quality of their data processing. As states identify systematic errors, they may revise or replace historical data files. While this practice improves the dataset over time, reported historical statistics may change slightly from year to year. This public-use file was created from the December 12, 2003, extract. These data files include monthly case-level data for states and territories only. Tribal data is collected on an annual aggregated basis and is neither comparable nor included here. Additional information about this data collection may be found in a series of technical bulletins available directly through the Web site of the Child Care Bureau. These data files were produced by Anteon Corporation under contract with the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Administration for Children, Youth and Families, Child Care Bureau. |
Methodology |
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Sample: |
This sample dataset consists of monthly data provided by states that reported sample data and states that reported full population data, as well as any territory data received. Sampling of the data from states reporting full population data was done in accordance with Technical Bulletin #5, Scenario A. Detailed information about this method may be found here. The month with the lowest caseload was selected for determining the sampling rate so that at least 200 samples were selected for each month. Additional information on the development of this sample dataset is provided in the accompanying technical documentation. |
Weight: |
To obtain representative national statistics, weighted statistics must be generated using the number of families and children served as the weighting factor. Where applicable, sampling weight adjustments have been included in the files. Children from the same state get the same weight and results reflect the entire sample size of the US and territories. There are two weight variables available for analysis: A_FCHWT and U_FCHWT. A description of these weights is provided below:
Separate child and family online data files have been produced for each of the two weights described above. Users of these data are strongly encouraged to read through the accompanying technical documentation file for further discussion of methods by which to obtain weighted statistics and for guidance with the use of these methods for proper analysis of these data. |
Data Source: |
Administrative records from states and territories as reported to the Child Care Bureau. |
Access and Availability |
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Note: |
Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
Original ICPSR Release: |
2006-04-25 |
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