States are required by the CCDF Final Rule to ensure that families receiving child care assistance have equal access to comparable care purchased by private-paying parents. A market rate survey (MRS) is a tool States use to achieve this program objective. Some States conduct surveys to collect the child care market rate and others use administrative data, such as data collected by child care resource and referral (CCR&R) and State licensing agencies, to analyze the market rate for child care.

This survey was one strategy used to collect child care market price data. Comparing findings garnered from different methods allows one to evaluate whether different data collection methods produce different price findings (convergent validity) and how well these data collection methods represent the child care market (criterion-related validity). These data can also be used to explore several validity issues of concern with market price studies.

Units of Response: Program

Type of Data: Survey

Tribal Data: No

Periodicity: One-time

Demographic Indicators: Not Applicable

SORN: Not Applicable

Data Use Agreement: Yes

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

Granularity: Childcare Providers;Individual;Program;Region

Spatial: United States

Geocoding: Unavailable