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Child Care Licensing Study, United States, 2011 (ICPSR 34550)

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Fischer, Sheri, and Martella, Jana. Child Care Licensing Study, United States, 2011. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-04-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34550.v1

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Sheri Fischer, United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. National Child Care Information and Technical Assistance Center; Jana Martella, National Association for Regulatory Administration

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  • Child Care Licensing Survey Series

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The purpose of the 2011 Child Care Licensing Study is to report two aspects of child care licensing from 2011 for all 50 states and the District of Columbia (not including Idaho): (1) state child care licensing programs and policies and (2) child care center and family child care home licensing regulations. The study focuses on the processes and policies in each state related to staffing for the licensing program, monitoring facilities, and enforcement of licensing regulations.

To collect information on states' licensing policies, including staffing, monitoring, and enforcement of licensing regulations, the National Association for Regulatory Administration (NARA) disseminated the 2011 NARA Child Care Licensing Program Survey to all state child care licensing agencies in May 2012. Responses were received from all states. The survey focused on the processes and policies in each state related to staffing for the licensing program, monitoring facilities, and enforcement of licensing regulations. The data cover the following topical areas:

  • Number of licensed facilities
  • Complaint investigations
  • Licensing staff
  • Enforcement actions
  • Types of inspections
  • Licensing information on the Internet
  • Frequency of inspections
  • Licensing fees
  • Frequency of licensing
  • Licensing staff requirements
  • Inspections and monitoring and
  • Licensing's role in quality initiatives

The child care center licensing regulations used for this study are those that were posted on the National Resources Center for Health and Safety in Child Care (NRC) Web site. The data cover the following areas:

  • Licensing regulations
  • Additional staff training requirements
  • Definition of licensed child care centers
  • Child-staff ratios and group size
  • Staff roles and age requirements
  • Supervision of children
  • Staff qualifications and ongoing training requirements
  • Care of children
  • Facility requirements and
  • Staff hiring requirements

The same Web site was used to collect licensing regulations covering the above listed topics for small family child care homes and large/group family child care homes. More information on the study is located at the National Association for Regulatory Administration's Web site.

Citation View help for Citation

Fischer, Sheri, and Martella, Jana. Child Care Licensing Study, United States, 2011. Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-04-15. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34550.v1

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Subject Terms View help for Subject Terms

child care   child health   child nutrition   licensing   state regulations

Geographic Coverage View help for Geographic Coverage

United States

Smallest Geographic Unit View help for Smallest Geographic Unit

state

Distributor(s) View help for Distributor(s)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
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Scope of Project

Time Period(s) View help for Time Period(s)

2011-01 -- 2011-12

Date of Collection View help for Date of Collection

2012-01 -- 2012-10

Data Collection Notes View help for Data Collection Notes

The child care center licensing regulations used for this study are those that were posted on the National Resources Center for Health and Safety in Child Care (NRC) Web site between January 1, 2011, and December 31, 2011. The same Web site was used to collect licensing regulations covering the topics listed for small family child care homes and large/group family child care homes. More information on the study is located at the National Association for Regulatory Administration's Web site.

The data in this collection has been organized in a way designed to reflect the existing structure presented in the Child Care Licensing Survey Final Report and on the NARA Web site.

Users should note that due to limitations in SAS, Stata, and SPSS, variables containing open-ended/qualitative data (greater than 250 characters) are available in Microsoft Excel format only.

Upon conversion from the original Microsoft Access database, some formatting was not retained.

No data is available for Idaho. Idaho does not have child care licensing at the state level.

The State Profiles and Final Report are no longer being produced for this series. They are being replaced by three Research Briefs (forthcoming).

Due to statistical package limitations, set up files for Stata and R were not produced for the State Child Care Center Regulations Data, the State Small Family Child Care Home Regulations Data, and the State Large/Group Family Child Care Home Regulations Data.

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Methodology

Universe View help for Universe

All state child care licensing agencies, including the District of Columbia and excluding Idaho.

Unit(s) of Observation View help for Unit(s) of Observation

state agency

Data Type(s) View help for Data Type(s)

administrative records data   survey data

Mode of Data Collection View help for Mode of Data Collection

web-based survey

Response Rates View help for Response Rates

Responses were received from all states and the District of Columbia (excluding Idaho).

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Original Release Date View help for Original Release Date

2013-04-15

Version History View help for Version History

2018-02-15 The citation of this study may have changed due to the new version control system that has been implemented. The previous citation was:
  • Fischer, Sheri, and Jana Martella. Child Care Licensing Study, United States, 2011. ICPSR34550-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2013-04-15. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR34550.v1

2013-04-15 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Created variable labels and/or value labels.
  • Standardized missing values.
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  • The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.

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The datasets in the ICPSR Child and Family Data Archive collection are available for free though funding by contract #HHSP233201800021C from the Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (OPRE), an office of the Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The contents are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the official views of, nor an endorsement by, ACF/HHS or the U.S. Government. For more information, please visit the ACF website at Administrative and National Policy Requirements.

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