Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2004

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 transitioning 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. These sample files were created using
the data that were current as of March 31, 2006. 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.