Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, [United States], Federal Fiscal Year 2019

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, 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 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.

本行政数据集提供了通过联邦儿童保育与发展基金（Child Care and Development Fund, CCDF）服务的家庭与儿童的描述性信息。该基金向各州、领地及部落拨付资金，用于为正在接受或正从临时性公共救助过渡的低收入家庭提供援助，帮助其获得优质儿童保育服务，以便家长能够参与工作；部分州还可根据本州政策，将援助用于支持家庭参与培训或接受教育。《1996年个人责任与工作机会法案》要求各州及领地收集所有通过CCDF接受救助的家庭单元的相关信息，并按月向儿童保育办公室提交案件层面数据。经批准的抽样指南框架下，各州可选择报送全人口范围的案件层面数据，或仅报送抽样人口的相关数据。
汇总记录文件包含月度州级汇总信息，其中涵盖受助家庭数量。家庭记录文件包含家庭层面数据，具体包括户主的单亲家庭身份、月度共付金额、儿童保育救助起始日期、保育需求原因（如就业、培训/教育、保护服务等）、用于判定救助资格的收入、收入来源，以及用于计算救助资格的家庭规模。儿童记录文件包含儿童层面数据，具体包括族裔、种族、性别与出生日期。保育环境记录文件包含儿童保育服务类型、支付给保育提供者的总金额，以及儿童接受保育的总时长等相关信息。资金统筹因子文件提供州级数据，具体包括通过CCDF拨付的儿童保育资金占比、受助方（州）所属并受其监管的联邦早期启蒙计划（Head Start）区域，以及受助方所在州的联邦信息处理标准（Federal Information Processing Standard, FIPS）代码。