Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2007

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 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.
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.