Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2001

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,
in obtaining quality child care so they can work, or depending on
their state's policy, 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 December 12, 2003.
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, and source of income. 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 are provided through the CCDF.