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    <required_header>
      <download_date>ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on September 20, 2023</download_date>
      <link_text>Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.</link_text>
      <url>https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05987137</url>
    </required_header>
    <id_info>
      <org_study_id>HHSP233201500048I-75N98021F003</org_study_id>
      <nct_id>NCT05987137</nct_id>
    </id_info>
    <brief_title>2024 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE)</brief_title>
    <official_title>2024 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE)</official_title>
    <sponsors>
      <lead_sponsor>
        <agency>National Opinion Research Center</agency>
        <agency_class>Other</agency_class>
      </lead_sponsor>
      <collaborator>
        <agency>Child Trends</agency>
        <agency_class>Other</agency_class>
      </collaborator>
      <collaborator>
        <agency>Office of Planning, Research &amp; Evaluation</agency>
        <agency_class>U.S. Fed</agency_class>
      </collaborator>
      <collaborator>
        <agency>Chapin Hall at the University of Chicago</agency>
        <agency_class>Other</agency_class>
      </collaborator>
    </sponsors>
    <source>National Opinion Research Center</source>
    <oversight_info>
      <is_fda_regulated_drug>No</is_fda_regulated_drug>
      <is_fda_regulated_device>No</is_fda_regulated_device>
    </oversight_info>
    <brief_summary>
      <textblock>
        The National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) captures families' needs,&#xD;
        preferences, and choices of non-parental care for children under age 13 and providers' child&#xD;
        care and early education offerings. Since the NSECE was last conducted in 2019, the landscape&#xD;
        of ECE has changed dramatically. Funding for early childhood programming has grown as&#xD;
        policymakers recognize the important role access to ECE plays for families as a work support&#xD;
        for parents and an investment in children's future educational and economic opportunities. At&#xD;
        the same time, beginning in 2020, the nation experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to&#xD;
        significant shifts in the U.S. economy. These circumstances likely altered parents' use of&#xD;
        ECE and the labor market and economic forces in which ECE providers operate.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        The 2024 NSECE builds on findings from the 2012 and 2019 NSECE to allow for comparisons of&#xD;
        supply and demand of child care and early education over the 12 years that span data&#xD;
        collection. The 2024 NSECE aims to inform future policy discussions about child care and&#xD;
        early education at the local, state, and national levels by providing data to:&#xD;
  &#xD;
          -  Build on the efforts and lessons from the 2012 and 2019 NSECE to allow for comparisons&#xD;
             of child care and early education supply and the early care and education workforce from&#xD;
             2012 to 2024&#xD;
  &#xD;
          -  Capture the characteristics of households with children under age 13, such as parental&#xD;
             employment status and schedules, preferences and choices of non-parental care, and other&#xD;
             factors that affect their need for and access to child care and early education&#xD;
  &#xD;
          -  Document how the field of child care and early education responded to policy initiatives&#xD;
             during the period between 2012 and 2024, including changes in supply and demand during&#xD;
             the COVID-19 pandemic starting in 2020&#xD;
      </textblock>
    </brief_summary>
    <detailed_description>
      <textblock>
        In order to create a comprehensive portrait of the availability and use of early care and&#xD;
        education, the NSECE is fielding a set of four integrated, nationally representative surveys&#xD;
        beginning in 2023. These are surveys of 1) households with children under 13, 2) home-based&#xD;
        providers 3) center-based providers, and 4) the center-based provider workforce. Together&#xD;
        they characterize the supply of and demand for early care and education in America and permit&#xD;
        better understanding of how well families' needs and preferences coordinate with providers'&#xD;
        offerings and constraints.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        The Household Survey is being conducted with a parent or guardian of a child or children&#xD;
        under age 13 in households with at least one member child under age 13. Eligible respondents&#xD;
        are identified through the Household Screener based only on the presence of an age-eligible&#xD;
        child. Screening is being completed by mail, by phone, by web, and in person. All of these&#xD;
        interviews are being conducted by an interviewer, primarily in person. This survey documents&#xD;
        the nation's demand for early care and education services. Key questionnaire topics include&#xD;
        details on usage of non-parental care, expenditures on non-parental care, parental search&#xD;
        behavior for early care and education, and the balance of parental employment with child care&#xD;
        needs and availability.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        These data will help to answer such research questions as 1) Who is caring for America's&#xD;
        children when they are not with their parents and do families with different demographic&#xD;
        characteristics have different preferences or different patterns of usage? 2) How do families&#xD;
        search for care and how does this vary by age of children, characteristics of parents,&#xD;
        location, and availability of licensed slots per population? 3) How and how much do families&#xD;
        pay for care? and 4) How many families of different characteristics receive public financial&#xD;
        support for ECE, and how does this vary by age of child and type of care utilized?&#xD;
  &#xD;
        The Home-based Provider Survey is being conducted with individuals who provide care in a&#xD;
        home-based setting for children under age 13 who are not their own for five or more hours a&#xD;
        week. Two sample sources contribute providers. One, home-based providers who appear in&#xD;
        provider sampling frames constructed from state and national lists were sampled for this&#xD;
        survey. These providers are designated as 'listed.' Listed providers are primarily licensed&#xD;
        or regulated family day care providers, but also include other formally listed home-based&#xD;
        providers such as license-exempt providers or providers participating in Early Head Start.&#xD;
        Alternatively, households may be identified as eligible based on their responses to the&#xD;
        household screener (specifically, that an adult in the household regularly cares for children&#xD;
        not his or her own at least five hours per week in a home-based setting). These providers do&#xD;
        not appear in the provider sampling frame and are designated as 'unlisted.' Data collection&#xD;
        is being conducted by web, in person, and by telephone with field interviewers.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        Key questionnaire topics in the home-based provider questionnaire include enrollment and the&#xD;
        characteristics of the children served, rates charged for care, and participation in&#xD;
        government programs, household composition, qualifications for and practices regarding early&#xD;
        childhood education, use of curricula and activities conducted with children. Portions of the&#xD;
        home-based provider questionnaire will contribute to analyses of the ECE workforce and mirror&#xD;
        the content of the workforce (classroom staff) questionnaire administered to&#xD;
        classroom-assigned instructional staff at center-based providers. Other portions of this&#xD;
        questionnaire closely mimic the center-based provider questionnaire (see below), so that&#xD;
        enrollment, program participation, provider charges for care, attitudes, orientation and&#xD;
        activities data can be accurately compared across all different categories of provider.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        These data will answer such questions as 1) What kind of early care and education is&#xD;
        available across communities throughout the country? 2) How well does the available supply of&#xD;
        early care and education support parents' employment? 3) How do different types of providers&#xD;
        vary in their characteristics of care and affordability? and 4) Who are the individuals&#xD;
        working in early care and education? What are their experiences in terms of employment&#xD;
        characteristics, classroom activities, and professional development? What are their&#xD;
        attitudes, practices, and burnout and depression levels?&#xD;
  &#xD;
        The inclusion of providers identified through the Household Screener will offer invaluable&#xD;
        nationally representative data on family, friend and neighbor providers and is one of the&#xD;
        pioneering aspects of the NSECE. Investigators will learn about both paid and unpaid care,&#xD;
        including how they differ in their characteristics and their availability to families.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        The Center-based Provider Survey will be conducted with directors or administrative staff of&#xD;
        ECE programs that provide care to children not yet in kindergarten who were identified from&#xD;
        the provider sampling frame built from state or national administrative lists such as state&#xD;
        licensing lists, Head Start program records, or pre-K rolls. These providers include&#xD;
        regulated, licensed, and other private providers as well. The center-based provider&#xD;
        questionnaire is preceded by a Center-based Provider Screener that confirms and updates&#xD;
        information from the provider sampling frame and determines eligibility for the center-based&#xD;
        provider questionnaire. Topics covered by this instrument include enrollment and&#xD;
        characteristics of children served, staffing, prices charged, schedules of service,&#xD;
        participation in government programs, and staff compensation and professional development&#xD;
        policies. The questionnaire also includes the selection of a representative classroom about&#xD;
        which more detailed staffing, compensation, and curriculum information are collected. These&#xD;
        data constitute a nationally representative sample of ECE classrooms. This instrument will be&#xD;
        administered using web, in-person, and telephone interviewing.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        The center-based provider questionnaire data will answer such questions as 1) What kind of&#xD;
        early care and education is available across communities throughout the country? 2) How well&#xD;
        does the available supply of early care and education support parents' employment? 3) How do&#xD;
        different types of providers vary in their characteristics of care and affordability? and 4)&#xD;
        How many and what types of providers participate in quality improvement efforts such as staff&#xD;
        quality ratings and professional development?&#xD;
  &#xD;
        The Workforce (Classroom Staff) Survey sample is comprised of one or two classroom-assigned&#xD;
        instructional staff members from each center-based provider who completed a center-based&#xD;
        provider interview. Workforce (classroom staff) respondents are drawn from the center-based&#xD;
        provider questionnaire data, in which all staff members have been enumerated from a randomly&#xD;
        selected classroom. The questionnaire closely mirrors portions of the home-based provider&#xD;
        questionnaire, so that the two data sources together can paint a rich portrait of the paid&#xD;
        ECE workforce, including center-based and home-based paid providers. (Individuals who are not&#xD;
        paid will be profiled as described in the family, friends, and neighbor section above.)&#xD;
        Topics include information about the work setting (activities in the classroom, interactions&#xD;
        with parents and other staff, availability of professional development and other supports),&#xD;
        roles and responsibilities (lead teacher, teacher, assistant teacher, aide), compensation&#xD;
        (wages and benefits), and perceived leadership and morale, as well as personal information&#xD;
        about qualifications, practices regarding ECE, and burnout, depression, and demographic&#xD;
        information.&#xD;
  &#xD;
        The workforce (classroom staff) questionnaire is the simplest of the NSECE survey&#xD;
        instruments, but these data represent a signal contribution of the study. Before the 2012&#xD;
        study, no nationally representative survey of paid ECE workers had ever been done, yet many&#xD;
        of the pressing ECE policy questions require better understanding of ECE workers'&#xD;
        qualifications, access to professional development, motivation for working in the field, and&#xD;
        nature of participation in the labor market as well as the extent to which paid home-based&#xD;
        providers are more generally available for expanding and improving overall ECE supply. Some&#xD;
        of the workforce (classroom staff) questionnaire data will allow tabulation by provider&#xD;
        program characteristics (such as enrollment size, type of care, geographic location,&#xD;
        for-profit/not-for-profit status, and participation in government programs) of factors that&#xD;
        have been found in the literature to predict observed quality. These factors include staff&#xD;
        qualifications and compensation, use of curricula, availability of professional development,&#xD;
        and children's activities while in care. The data will answer such questions as who are the&#xD;
        individuals working in early care and education and what are their experiences in terms of&#xD;
        employment characteristics, classroom activities, and professional development?&#xD;
      </textblock>
    </detailed_description>
    <overall_status>Not yet recruiting</overall_status>
    <start_date type="Anticipated">October 2023</start_date>
    <completion_date type="Anticipated">July 2024</completion_date>
    <primary_completion_date type="Anticipated">July 2024</primary_completion_date>
    <study_type>Observational</study_type>
    <has_expanded_access>No</has_expanded_access>
    <study_design_info>
      <observational_model>Ecologic or Community</observational_model>
      <time_perspective>Cross-Sectional</time_perspective>
    </study_design_info>
    <primary_outcome>
      <measure>Need For And Use Of Childcare in Households With Children Under 13</measure>
      <time_frame>October 2023 - July 2024</time_frame>
      <description>The household questionnaire collects information on each household's need for and use of early care and education services, including details on usage of non-parental care, expenditures on non-parental care, parental search behavior for early care and education, and the balance of parental employment with child care needs and availability.</description>
    </primary_outcome>
    <primary_outcome>
      <measure>Provision And Characteristics Of Child Care Among Center-based Providers</measure>
      <time_frame>October 2023 - July 2024</time_frame>
      <description>The center-based provider questionnaire collects information on enrollment and characteristics of children served, staffing, prices charged, schedules of service, participation in government programs, and staff compensation and professional development policies. The questionnaire also includes the selection of a representative classroom about which more detailed staffing, compensation, and curriculum information are collected. Individual questionnaire items may be developed into scales by researchers, but specific scales are not prescribed in the study design or analysis plans.</description>
    </primary_outcome>
    <primary_outcome>
      <measure>Characteristics And Experiences Of The ECE Workforce</measure>
      <time_frame>October 2023 - July 2024</time_frame>
      <description>The workforce (classroom staff) questionnaire collects information about the work setting (activities in the classroom, interactions with parents and other staff, availability of professional development and other supports), roles and responsibilities (lead teacher, teacher, assistant teacher, aide), compensation (wages and benefits), and perceived leadership and morale, as well as personal information about qualifications, practices regarding ECE, and burnout, depression, and demographic information. Individual questionnaire items may be developed into scales by researchers, and some standard scales are excerpted in the NSECE questionnaire, but specific scales are not prescribed in the study design or analysis plans.</description>
    </primary_outcome>
    <primary_outcome>
      <measure>Provision and characteristics of child care among home-based providers</measure>
      <time_frame>October 2023 - July 2024</time_frame>
      <description>The workforce (classroom staff) questionnaire collects information about the work setting (activities in the classroom, interactions with parents and other staff, availability of professional development and other supports), roles and responsibilities (lead teacher, teacher, assistant teacher, aide), compensation (wages and benefits), and perceived leadership and morale, as well as personal information about qualifications, practices regarding ECE, and burnout, depression, and demographic information. Individual questionnaire items may be developed into scales by researchers, and some standard scales are excerpted in the NSECE questionnaire, but specific scales are not prescribed in the study design or analysis plans.</description>
    </primary_outcome>
    <number_of_groups>4</number_of_groups>
    <enrollment type="Anticipated">106200</enrollment>
    <condition>Children Under 13</condition>
    <arm_group>
      <arm_group_label>Households</arm_group_label>
      <description>Interviews conducted with the parent or guardian of a child or children under age 13.</description>
    </arm_group>
    <arm_group>
      <arm_group_label>Home-based providers</arm_group_label>
      <description>Interviews conducted with individuals who provide care in a home-based setting to children under age 13 who are not their own for five or more hours a week.</description>
    </arm_group>
    <arm_group>
      <arm_group_label>Center-based Providers</arm_group_label>
      <description>Interviews conducted with directors of early care and educations programs that provide care to children not yet in kindergarten.</description>
    </arm_group>
    <arm_group>
      <arm_group_label>Workforce (Classroom Staff)</arm_group_label>
      <description>Interviews conducted with classroom-assigned instructional staff sampled from each center-based provider who completed an interview.</description>
    </arm_group>
    <intervention>
      <intervention_type>Other</intervention_type>
      <intervention_name>No intervention is being administered.</intervention_name>
      <description>No intervention is being administered.</description>
      <arm_group_label>Center-based Providers</arm_group_label>
      <arm_group_label>Home-based providers</arm_group_label>
      <arm_group_label>Households</arm_group_label>
      <arm_group_label>Workforce (Classroom Staff)</arm_group_label>
    </intervention>
    <eligibility>
      <study_pop>
        <textblock>
          Households with children under 13 years. Individuals providing at least 5 hours' weekly&#xD;
          care to children under 13 years not their own in a home-based setting. Early care and&#xD;
          education centers serving children not yet in kindergarten. Individuals working in&#xD;
          center-based classrooms.&#xD;
        </textblock>
      </study_pop>
      <sampling_method>Probability Sample</sampling_method>
      <criteria>
        <textblock>
          Inclusion Criteria:&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  Households with at least one child under the age of 13.&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  Individuals who care for a child under 13 who are not their own in a home-based&#xD;
               setting for at least five hours a week.&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  Center-based ECE programs that provide care to children not yet in kindergarten who&#xD;
               were identified from the provider sampling frame built from state or national&#xD;
               administrative lists such as state licensing lists.&#xD;
  &#xD;
            -  Respondents for the workforce (classroom staff) survey are selected from the list of&#xD;
               instructional staff associated with the randomly selected classroom from the&#xD;
               center-based provider interview.&#xD;
        </textblock>
      </criteria>
      <gender>All</gender>
      <minimum_age>18 Years</minimum_age>
      <maximum_age>N/A</maximum_age>
    </eligibility>
    <overall_official>
      <last_name>Rupa Datta, PhD</last_name>
      <role>Principal Investigator</role>
      <affiliation>NORC at the University of Chicago</affiliation>
    </overall_official>
    <overall_contact>
      <last_name>Rupa Datta, PhD</last_name>
      <phone>312-759-4219</phone>
      <email>datta-rupa@norc.org</email>
    </overall_contact>
    <overall_contact_backup>
      <last_name>Jill Connelly, PhD</last_name>
      <phone>312-325-2579</phone>
      <email>connelly-jill@norc.org</email>
    </overall_contact_backup>
    <location>
      <facility>
        <name>NORC at the University of Chicago</name>
        <address>
          <city>Chicago</city>
          <state>Illinois</state>
          <zip>60603</zip>
          <country>United States</country>
        </address>
      </facility>
    </location>
    <location_countries>
      <country>United States</country>
    </location_countries>
    <verification_date>August 2023</verification_date>
    <study_first_submitted>August 4, 2023</study_first_submitted>
    <study_first_submitted_qc>August 4, 2023</study_first_submitted_qc>
    <study_first_posted type="Actual">August 14, 2023</study_first_posted>
    <last_update_submitted>August 4, 2023</last_update_submitted>
    <last_update_submitted_qc>August 4, 2023</last_update_submitted_qc>
    <last_update_posted type="Actual">August 14, 2023</last_update_posted>
    <responsible_party>
      <responsible_party_type>Principal Investigator</responsible_party_type>
      <investigator_affiliation>National Opinion Research Center</investigator_affiliation>
      <investigator_full_name>Rupa Datta</investigator_full_name>
      <investigator_title>Distinguished Senior Fellow</investigator_title>
    </responsible_party>
    <keyword>Early care and education</keyword>
    <keyword>Center-based providers</keyword>
    <keyword>Home-based providers</keyword>
    <keyword>Caregivers</keyword>
    <keyword>Child care</keyword>
    <keyword>Workforce</keyword>
    <keyword>ECE</keyword>
    <patient_data>
      <sharing_ipd>No</sharing_ipd>
    </patient_data>
    <!-- Results have not yet been posted for this study                                          -->
  </clinical_study>
  
  
text: download date: ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on September 20, 2023
  link text: Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.
  url: https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT05987137
  org study id: HHSP233201500048I-75N98021F003
  nct id: NCT05987137
  lead sponsor: 
  collaborator: 
  collaborator: 
  collaborator: 
  is fda regulated drug: No
  is fda regulated device: No
  The National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) captures families' needs,
        preferences, and choices of non-parental care for children under age 13 and providers' child
        care and early education offerings. Since the NSECE was last conducted in 2019, the landscape
        of ECE has changed dramatically. Funding for early childhood programming has grown as
        policymakers recognize the important role access to ECE plays for families as a work support
        for parents and an investment in children's future educational and economic opportunities. At
        the same time, beginning in 2020, the nation experienced the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to
        significant shifts in the U.S. economy. These circumstances likely altered parents' use of
        ECE and the labor market and economic forces in which ECE providers operate.
  
        The 2024 NSECE builds on findings from the 2012 and 2019 NSECE to allow for comparisons of
        supply and demand of child care and early education over the 12 years that span data
        collection. The 2024 NSECE aims to inform future policy discussions about child care and
        early education at the local, state, and national levels by providing data to:
  
          -  Build on the efforts and lessons from the 2012 and 2019 NSECE to allow for comparisons
             of child care and early education supply and the early care and education workforce from
             2012 to 2024
  
          -  Capture the characteristics of households with children under age 13, such as parental
             employment status and schedules, preferences and choices of non-parental care, and other
             factors that affect their need for and access to child care and early education
  
          -  Document how the field of child care and early education responded to policy initiatives
             during the period between 2012 and 2024, including changes in supply and demand during
             the COVID-19 pandemic starting in 2020
  In order to create a comprehensive portrait of the availability and use of early care and
        education, the NSECE is fielding a set of four integrated, nationally representative surveys
        beginning in 2023. These 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 supply of and demand for early care and education in America and permit
        better understanding of how well families' needs and preferences coordinate with providers'
        offerings and constraints.
  
        The Household Survey is being conducted with a parent or guardian of a child or children
        under age 13 in households with at least one member child under age 13. Eligible respondents
        are identified through the Household Screener based only on the presence of an age-eligible
        child. Screening is being completed by mail, by phone, by web, and in person. All of these
        interviews are being conducted by an interviewer, primarily in person. This survey documents
        the nation's demand for early care and education services. Key questionnaire topics include
        details on usage of non-parental care, expenditures on non-parental care, parental search
        behavior for early care and education, and the balance of parental employment with child care
        needs and availability.
  
        These data will help to answer such research questions as 1) Who is caring for America's
        children when they are not with their parents and do families with different demographic
        characteristics have different preferences or different patterns of usage? 2) How do families
        search for care and how does this vary by age of children, characteristics of parents,
        location, and availability of licensed slots per population? 3) How and how much do families
        pay for care? and 4) How many families of different characteristics receive public financial
        support for ECE, and how does this vary by age of child and type of care utilized?
  
        The Home-based Provider Survey is being conducted with individuals who provide care in a
        home-based setting for children under age 13 who are not their own for five or more hours a
        week. Two sample sources contribute providers. One, home-based providers who appear in
        provider sampling frames constructed from state and national lists were sampled for this
        survey. These providers are designated as 'listed.' Listed providers are primarily licensed
        or regulated family day care providers, but also include other formally listed home-based
        providers such as license-exempt providers or providers participating in Early Head Start.
        Alternatively, households may be identified as eligible based on their responses to the
        household screener (specifically, that an adult in the household regularly cares for children
        not his or her own at least five hours per week in a home-based setting). These providers do
        not appear in the provider sampling frame and are designated as 'unlisted.' Data collection
        is being conducted by web, in person, and by telephone with field interviewers.
  
        Key questionnaire topics in the home-based provider questionnaire include enrollment and the
        characteristics of the children served, rates charged for care, and participation in
        government programs, household composition, qualifications for and practices regarding early
        childhood education, use of curricula and activities conducted with children. Portions of the
        home-based provider questionnaire will contribute to analyses of the ECE workforce and mirror
        the content of the workforce (classroom staff) questionnaire administered to
        classroom-assigned instructional staff at center-based providers. Other portions of this
        questionnaire closely mimic the center-based provider questionnaire (see below), so that
        enrollment, program participation, provider charges for care, attitudes, orientation and
        activities data can be accurately compared across all different categories of provider.
  
        These data will answer such questions as 1) What kind of early care and education is
        available across communities throughout the country? 2) How well does the available supply of
        early care and education support parents' employment? 3) How do different types of providers
        vary in their characteristics of care and affordability? and 4) Who are the individuals
        working in early care and education? What are their experiences in terms of employment
        characteristics, classroom activities, and professional development? What are their
        attitudes, practices, and burnout and depression levels?
  
        The inclusion of providers identified through the Household Screener will offer invaluable
        nationally representative data on family, friend and neighbor providers and is one of the
        pioneering aspects of the NSECE. Investigators will learn about both paid and unpaid care,
        including how they differ in their characteristics and their availability to families.
  
        The Center-based Provider Survey will be conducted with directors or administrative staff of
        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, Head Start program records, or pre-K rolls. These providers include
        regulated, licensed, and other private providers as well. The center-based provider
        questionnaire is preceded by a Center-based Provider Screener that confirms and updates
        information from the provider sampling frame and determines eligibility for the center-based
        provider questionnaire. Topics covered by this instrument include enrollment and
        characteristics of children served, staffing, prices charged, schedules of service,
        participation in government programs, and staff compensation and professional development
        policies. The questionnaire also includes the selection of a representative classroom about
        which more detailed staffing, compensation, and curriculum information are collected. These
        data constitute a nationally representative sample of ECE classrooms. This instrument will be
        administered using web, in-person, and telephone interviewing.
  
        The center-based provider questionnaire data will answer such questions as 1) What kind of
        early care and education is available across communities throughout the country? 2) How well
        does the available supply of early care and education support parents' employment? 3) How do
        different types of providers vary in their characteristics of care and affordability? and 4)
        How many and what types of providers participate in quality improvement efforts such as staff
        quality ratings and professional development?
  
        The Workforce (Classroom Staff) Survey sample is comprised of one or two classroom-assigned
        instructional staff members from each center-based provider who completed a center-based
        provider interview. Workforce (classroom staff) respondents are drawn from the center-based
        provider questionnaire data, in which all staff members have been enumerated from a randomly
        selected classroom. The questionnaire closely mirrors portions of the home-based provider
        questionnaire, so that the two data sources together can paint a rich portrait of the paid
        ECE workforce, including center-based and home-based paid providers. (Individuals who are not
        paid will be profiled as described in the family, friends, and neighbor section above.)
        Topics include information about the work setting (activities in the classroom, interactions
        with parents and other staff, availability of professional development and other supports),
        roles and responsibilities (lead teacher, teacher, assistant teacher, aide), compensation
        (wages and benefits), and perceived leadership and morale, as well as personal information
        about qualifications, practices regarding ECE, and burnout, depression, and demographic
        information.
  
        The workforce (classroom staff) questionnaire is the simplest of the NSECE survey
        instruments, but these data represent a signal contribution of the study. Before the 2012
        study, no nationally representative survey of paid ECE workers had ever been done, yet many
        of the pressing ECE policy questions require better understanding of ECE workers'
        qualifications, access to professional development, motivation for working in the field, and
        nature of participation in the labor market as well as the extent to which paid home-based
        providers are more generally available for expanding and improving overall ECE supply. Some
        of the workforce (classroom staff) questionnaire data will allow tabulation by provider
        program characteristics (such as enrollment size, type of care, geographic location,
        for-profit/not-for-profit status, and participation in government programs) of factors that
        have been found in the literature to predict observed quality. These factors include staff
        qualifications and compensation, use of curricula, availability of professional development,
        and children's activities while in care. The data will answer such questions as who are the
        individuals working in early care and education and what are their experiences in terms of
        employment characteristics, classroom activities, and professional development?
  observational model: Ecologic or Community
  time perspective: Cross-Sectional
  measure: Need For And Use Of Childcare in Households With Children Under 13
  time frame: October 2023 - July 2024
  description: The household questionnaire collects information on each household's need for and use of early care and education services, including details on usage of non-parental care, expenditures on non-parental care, parental search behavior for early care and education, and the balance of parental employment with child care needs and availability.
  measure: Provision And Characteristics Of Child Care Among Center-based Providers
  time frame: October 2023 - July 2024
  description: The center-based provider questionnaire collects information on enrollment and characteristics of children served, staffing, prices charged, schedules of service, participation in government programs, and staff compensation and professional development policies. The questionnaire also includes the selection of a representative classroom about which more detailed staffing, compensation, and curriculum information are collected. Individual questionnaire items may be developed into scales by researchers, but specific scales are not prescribed in the study design or analysis plans.
  measure: Characteristics And Experiences Of The ECE Workforce
  time frame: October 2023 - July 2024
  description: The workforce (classroom staff) questionnaire collects information about the work setting (activities in the classroom, interactions with parents and other staff, availability of professional development and other supports), roles and responsibilities (lead teacher, teacher, assistant teacher, aide), compensation (wages and benefits), and perceived leadership and morale, as well as personal information about qualifications, practices regarding ECE, and burnout, depression, and demographic information. Individual questionnaire items may be developed into scales by researchers, and some standard scales are excerpted in the NSECE questionnaire, but specific scales are not prescribed in the study design or analysis plans.
  measure: Provision and characteristics of child care among home-based providers
  time frame: October 2023 - July 2024
  description: The workforce (classroom staff) questionnaire collects information about the work setting (activities in the classroom, interactions with parents and other staff, availability of professional development and other supports), roles and responsibilities (lead teacher, teacher, assistant teacher, aide), compensation (wages and benefits), and perceived leadership and morale, as well as personal information about qualifications, practices regarding ECE, and burnout, depression, and demographic information. Individual questionnaire items may be developed into scales by researchers, and some standard scales are excerpted in the NSECE questionnaire, but specific scales are not prescribed in the study design or analysis plans.
  arm group label: Households
  description: Interviews conducted with the parent or guardian of a child or children under age 13.
  arm group label: Home-based providers
  description: Interviews conducted with individuals who provide care in a home-based setting to children under age 13 who are not their own for five or more hours a week.
  arm group label: Center-based Providers
  description: Interviews conducted with directors of early care and educations programs that provide care to children not yet in kindergarten.
  arm group label: Workforce (Classroom Staff)
  description: Interviews conducted with classroom-assigned instructional staff sampled from each center-based provider who completed an interview.
  intervention type: Other
  intervention name: No intervention is being administered.
  description: No intervention is being administered.
  arm group label: Center-based Providers
  arm group label: Home-based providers
  arm group label: Households
  arm group label: Workforce (Classroom Staff)
  study pop: 
  sampling method: Probability Sample
  criteria: 
  gender: All
  minimum age: 18 Years
  maximum age: N/A
  last name: Rupa Datta, PhD
  role: Principal Investigator
  affiliation: NORC at the University of Chicago
  last name: Rupa Datta, PhD
  phone: 312-759-4219
  email: datta-rupa@norc.org
  last name: Jill Connelly, PhD
  phone: 312-325-2579
  email: connelly-jill@norc.org
  facility: 
  country: United States
  responsible party type: Principal Investigator
  investigator affiliation: National Opinion Research Center
  investigator full name: Rupa Datta
  investigator title: Distinguished Senior Fellow
  sharing ipd: No