DOI: 10.3886/icpsr04379.v3
title: Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2001
title: Version 3

description: 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.
description: 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:

A_FCHWT: Annual Adjusted Weight for Families/Children Served.
This sampling weight adjustment accounts for the pooling factor and
weights the data by the number of families and children served by CCDF
in each state/national.
U_FCHWT: Annual Unadjusted Weight for Families/Children Served.
This sampling weight adjustment <strong>does not</strong> account for the
pooling factor and weights the data by the number of families and
children served from all reported funding sources in each
state/national.

Separate child and family online data files have been produced for each of the two weights described above. Users of these data are <strong>strongly encouraged</strong> 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.
description: 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, Appendix II: Annual Sampling Plan, Example 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.
description: Datasets: 
DS0: Study-Level Files
DS1: Summary Records
DS2: Family Records
DS3: Child Records
DS4: Setting Records
DS5: Pooling Factor
DS8: Adjusted Child Records File (Online Analysis Only)
DS9: Unadjusted Child Records File (Online Analysis Only)
DS10: Adjusted Family Records File (Online Analysis Only)
DS11: Unadjusted Family Records File (Online Analysis Only)
description: Children and families receiving assistance through the
Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), through their state,
territory, or tribe.
description: 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
Office of Child Care.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.