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Project Description

This project looks at the child care choices of low-income parents and CalWORKS participants as well as the constraints on their choices. It also continues to fill in the gaps in data on the supply and demand for child care, and is attempting to develop better methods for understanding the changing need for child care. Goals: 1. To measure child-care services currently available in California and provide updated supply-and-demand maps for all counties. 2. To better understand parents' use of child-care subsidies and their experiences interacting with subsidy programs. 3. To analyze the child-care choices that parents make, looking at variables such as family language, ethnicity, geography, licensed versus license-exempt providers, and participation in CalWORKS versus the APP subsidy program. 4. To develop several ways of understanding the concept of unmet need for child care. The project has three main components: 1. Child-care supply 2. Child-Care Subsidies 3. Parental Choices

Project duration: Mar 1999 - Apr 2003

Sites studied include Alameda, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Orange, Kern counties, CA

Sample Characteristics and Sites Studied

5 Focus groups: Child Care Providers; Former and present CalWORKs recipients (n=1974);

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