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    • Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Administrative Data Series

    Metadata Updated: July 4, 2025

    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 in transition from temporary public assistance, to obtain quality child care so they can work, or depending on their state's policy, to 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 Office of Child Care. States are permitted to report case-level data for the entire population, or a sample of the population, under approved sampling guidelines.

    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, source of income, and the family size on which eligibility is based. The Child Records file contains child-level data including ethnicity, race, 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 is provided through the CCDF, the federal Head Start region the grantee (state) is in and is monitored by, and the state FIPS code for the grantee.

    Units of Response: United States and Territories, CCDF Family Recipients, CCDF Children Recipients

    Type of Data: Administrative

    Tribal Data: No

    Periodicity: Annual

    Demographic Indicators: Ethnicity;Household Income;Household Size;Race

    SORN: Not Applicable

    Data Use Agreement: Not Applicable

    Data Use Agreement Location: https://www.icpsr.umich.edu/rpxlogin

    Granularity: Family;Individual

    Spatial: United States

    Geocoding: Tribe

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: No license information was provided. If this work was prepared by an officer or employee of the United States government as part of that person's official duties it is considered a U.S. Government Work.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date July 4, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 4, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

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    Additional Metadata

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    Metadata Created Date July 4, 2025
    Metadata Updated Date July 4, 2025
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    Data First Published 2023-11-17
    Data Last Modified 2025-07-03
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