Child Care and Development Fund Administrative Data, Federal Fiscal Year 2013

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护理与发展基金（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，用于为接受临时公共援助或正脱离临时公共援助的低收入家庭提供援助，助力其获得优质儿童护理服务，从而保障就业；部分州可根据本州政策，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》（Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996）要求各州及领地收集所有通过CCDF接受援助的家庭单元的相关信息，并按月向儿童护理办公室（Office of Child Care）提交个案层面数据。各州可依据获批的抽样指南，针对全体受助人群或其抽样样本提交个案层面数据。

汇总记录文件（Summary Records file）包含按月生成的州级汇总信息，其中涵盖受助家庭数量。家庭记录文件（Family Records file）包含家庭层面数据，具体包括户主的单亲家庭身份、月度共付额、儿童护理援助起始日期、儿童护理需求缘由（如就业、培训/教育、保护服务等）、用于资格认定的收入、收入来源，以及资格认定所依据的家庭规模。儿童记录文件（Child Records file）包含儿童层面数据，涵盖族裔、种族、性别及出生日期。服务环境记录文件（Setting Records file）包含儿童护理服务机构类型、支付给服务提供者的总金额，以及儿童接受护理的总时长相关信息。统筹系数文件（Pooling Factor file）提供州级数据，内容包括通过CCDF拨付的儿童护理资金占比、受助主体（州）所属并受其监管的联邦头脑起步计划（Head Start）区域，以及受助主体所在州的FIPS代码（FIPS code）。