CHILD CARE ACCESSIBILITY INDEX: LEVERAGING SC CHILD CARE ADMINISTRATIVE DATA TO INFORM STATE CCDBG SUBSIDY POLICIES

儿童保育无障碍指数：利用 SC 儿童保育管理数据来告知州 CCDBG 补贴政策

• 批准号: 100130
• 负责人: HERMAN KNOPF
• 金额: $ 14.85万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA AT COLUMBIA
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2015-09-29 至 2017-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/100130
• 关键词: CHILD; CARE; ACCESSIBILITY; INDEX; LEVERAGING

The goal of this project is to inform the understanding of state subsidy policies, practices, and procedures that are associated with the accessibility and availability of high quality child care for subsidy eligible children locally as well as nationwide. This project will develop a deeper understanding of accessibility to high quality child care in the context of availability, parental choices and subsidy utilization. Data used in this project are population-level longitudinal South Carolina administrative databases containing information primarily from the state child care licensing and state child subsidy systems, linked with other secondary data such as data from the Census Bureau and additional geo-spatial information on available child care providers. This project will present an application of innovative analyses more commonly used in other disciplines such as geography, economics and transportation as well as early childhood research to develop a Child Care Accessibility Index (CCAI) that would serve as a reliable tool to quickly assess accessibility in geographic regions based on key variables available in the de-identified state administrative databases. The study is grounded in previous research from the field, based on extensive descriptive analyses and will be developed in close collaboration with the Division of Early Care and Education (DECE) in the South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS) and other stakeholders with a focus on functionality of the research findings and its application in the field.

该项目的目标是让人们了解与当地和全国符合补贴条件的儿童获得高质量儿童保育服务相关的国家补贴政策、做法和程序。该项目将在可用性、家长选择和补贴利用的背景下，更深入地了解高质量儿童保育的可及性。该项目使用的数据是南卡罗来纳州人口层面的纵向行政数据库，其中包含主要来自州儿童保育许可和州儿童补贴系统的信息，并与其他二手数据（例如来自人口普查局的数据和有关现有儿童保育提供者的其他地理空间信息）相链接。该项目将展示在地理、经济和交通等其他学科以及幼儿研究中更常用的创新分析的应用，以开发儿童保育可达性指数（CCAI），该指数将作为可靠的工具，根据去识别化的国家行政数据库中可用的关键变量快速评估地理区域的可达性。该研究以该领域之前的研究为基础，基于广泛的描述性分析，并将与南卡罗来纳州社会服务部 (SCDSS) 的早期护理和教育部门 (DECE) 以及其他利益相关者密切合作，重点关注研究结果的功能及其在该领域的应用。