DOI: 10.3886/icpsr37233.v1
title: Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships, United States, 2016
title: Version 1

description: The Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships (EHS-CCP) dataset contains data from two surveys conducted by Mathematica Policy Research as part of a study on Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships. Mathematica conducted a survey of Early Head Start grantees and their delegate agencies, as well as a survey of selected child care partners of these agencies. The responses to the survey of grantees and their delegate agencies produced three of the datasets included in this collection. The first dataset, Partnership Grantee and Delegate Agency Director Survey, contains data from a survey of Early Head Start grantees and their delegate agencies. This dataset contains questions answered by the grantee or delegate agencies about themselves and contains one observation per grantee. Datasets two and three are also associated with the grantee and delegate agency survey. The second dataset, Grantee and Delegate Agencies Partner Characteristics, contains responses to the initial survey from the grantee or delegate regarding characteristics of all of their child care partners. This dataset was used to create a random sampling of approximately 20 percent of the child care partners for additional questions as well as a separate Child Care Partner survey, which were used to create both datasets three and four. Dataset three, Grantee and Delegate Agencies Randomly Sampled Partner Characteristics, contains responses from grantee and delegate agencies regarding the partners identified by the random sampling created from dataset two. The second survey conducted by Mathematica was of these selected child care partners, and dataset four, Child Care Partner Survey, is comprised of responses to questions asked of the child care partners about themselves. Demographic information contained in these datasets includes education level, degree field, length of occupation, and occupation.
description: The Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership (EHS-CCP) initiative was developed to bring together Early Head Start and child care through the layering of funding to provide comprehensive and continuous services to low-income infants, toddlers, and their families. The purpose of the Study of Early Head Start-Child Care Partnerships conducted by Mathematica Policy Research was: To assess the knowledge base and develop a theory of change model for understanding EHS-CC Partnerships; To develop a theory of change model to articulate relations among key features, characteristics, and expected outcomes of partnerships; To develop approaches to measuring partnerships for existing and new data collection efforts; To design an evaluation of the new discretionary EHS-CCP grantees.
description: Mathematica Policy Research utilized two primary sources of data to create the EHS-CCP data files. The first is the Grantee and Delegate Agency Director Survey, which was sent to 250 grantee and 55 delegate agency directors between January and July 2016. The Grantee and Delegate Agency Director Survey consisted of seven main sections: (1) basic information about the agency, (2) partnership development, (3) quality improvement activities, (4) services for children and families, (5) information about the child care partners, (6) partnership funding arrangements, and (7) background and experience. Additionally, in this survey, grantee and delegate agency directors were asked to provide the names and contact information for all of their child care partners, as well as some key characteristics about the partner centers. This identified 1,749 partners (998 child care partners and 761 family child care partners), and these data was compiled into a list, from which 470 partners were randomly selected to receive the Child Care Partner Survey. This Child Care Partner Survey consisted of seven main sections; (1) basic information about the child care business, (2) partnership development activities, (3) partnership funding arrangements, (4) quality improvement activities, (5) services for children and families, (6) partnership quality, and (7) background experience.
description: This collection includes weights that were developed to account for nonresponse at the grantee and delegate level. There are separate weights to sum up to the grant level (grant_wgt, in Dataset 1), which consist of a grantee and its delegates, and to the program level (program_wgt, in Datasets 1 and 2), which is a grantee and its delegates separately. Dataset 4 also includes weights that were developed to account for nonresponse at the partner level (partner_wgt) and the probability of selection at the partner level (sampwt_partner_cum). These weights make the randomly selected partners representative of the complete universe of child care partners. For additional information on weighting, please refer to section C "Weights for Survey Responses" of the P.I. Data Documentation Narrative.
description: Response Rates: 305 eligible grantees and delegates were identified for the survey. There were 260 completed responses, for a response rate of 85 percent. A total of 220 of 250 EHS-CC Partnership grantees (a response rate of 88 percent) and 40 delegate agencies of the 55 we contacted (a response rate of 73 percent) completed the survey. 470 partners were randomly selected to participate in the survey. A total of 386 of 470 child care partners (a response rate of 82 percent) completed the survey. The completion rate for child care center partners was 84 percent (255 of 302) and for family child care partners it was 78 percent (131 of 168).
description: All grantees and their delegate agencies that are part of the Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership program were sampled for the Grantee and Delegate Survey. The survey was sent to 250 EHS-CC Partnership grantees and 55 delegate agency directors. A total of 220 EHS-CC Partnership grantees and 40 delegate agencies completed the survey. In their responses, grantees and delegates listed all centers and family child care homes that they have a partnership with. Respondents identified 1,749 partners: 988 child care centers and 761 family child care homes. One out of five centers and family child care homes were randomly selected to participate in the partner survey, always selecting at least one-fifth of partners listed. For example, if a grantee had six centers and two family child care homes, there would be two centers and one family child care home sampled. This random sampling resulted in 470 total partners being asked to participate in the Child Care Partner Survey, including 302 child care centers and 168 family child care homes. A total of 386 child care partners completed and submitted the survey.
description: Datasets: DS0: Study-Level Files DS1: Grantee and Delegate Agency Director Survey DS2: Grantee and Delegate Agencies Partner Characteristics DS3: Grantee and Delegate Agencies Randomly Sampled Partner Characteristics DS4: Child Care Partner Survey
description: Organizations that received an Early Head Start-Child Care Partnership grant in 2015, along with their delegate agencies, and their partners. Smallest Geographic Unit: State
description: web-based survey