Article Link: http://exchangepress.com/article/an-up-to-date-look-at-the-supply-of-child-care-status-report-on-child-care-1990/5008314/
Center care has experienced a 400% growth rate in the past two decades. Not only has center care grown in sheer numbers, it has also grown faster than all other forms of care. More children are now enrolled in centers than in any other form of non-parental child care. These are some of the dramatic conclusions from two recently concluded child care supply and demand studies:_ In The National Child Care Survey 1990, The Urban Institute, the prime contractor, conducted 4,392 telephone interviews of families with children under the age of 13 to learn about their child care arrangements. This study was jointly sponsored by the National Association for the Education of Young Children and the Head Start Bureau of the Administration on Children, Youth, and Families in the US Department of Health and Human Services.
_ In A Profile of Child Care Settings, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc., the prime contractor, conducted telephone interviews with 2,089 centers and 583 family day care providers to ascertain the number and characteristics of the providers. This study was sponsored by the Office of Policy and Planning in the US Department of Education.
This article will summarized the results of these two ...