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CHILD CARE QUALITY: STRUCTURAL QUALITY
PANEL STUDY OF INCOME DYNAMICS—CHILD DEVELOPMENT SUPPLEMENT
Measure: Primary Caregiver: Child Booklet—Child Care Section
Source
The Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) is sponsored primarily by the National Science Foundation. Substantial additional funding has been provided by the National Institute on Aging, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, the Economic Research Service of the United States Department of Agriculture, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and the United States Department of Labor. The survey is conducted at the Survey Research Center, Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. The Child Development Supplement (CDS) was added in 1997.
“Child Care Arrangements. The series (of questions) on child care arrangements (Section H) comes from the National Child Care Survey 1990 and other related child care questionnaires. The retrospective history was based both on the National Child Care Survey retrospective history and on the experimental retrospective history asked in the 1989 wave of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (Mott & Baker, 1989).” (CDS User Guide http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/child-development/usergd6.html)
Population Assessed
The PSID-CDS sample was taken from the larger 1997 PSID sample. The total number of households eligible for the CDS was 2,705. Of those, 2,394 households were interviewed with a total of 3,586 children participating. The sample is approximately equal in the number of boys and girls interviewed. In the initial PSID sample, minority and low-income families are oversampled, resulting in a substantial number of Black and other minority families. The CDS identified 2,390 eligible families: 1,140 White families; 997 Black families; 158 non-White, non-Black Hispanic families; 46 Asian families; 12 Native American families; and 29 families of other nationalities.
Periodicity
The CDS was given originally as part of the 1997 PSID administration. It was added in 1999 as a supplement to the PSID, which is administered annually.
Subscales/Components
Structural components of child care are included in Section H: Child Care of the Primary Caregiver Child Booklet. The questions address the child care arrangements the child has had since birth. Questions include the type of arrangement, the cost of the arrangement, and the amount of time the child spends in the arrangement.
Procedures for Administration
The respondent for the child care section of the Primary Caregiver Questionnaire is the primary caregiver. The primary caregiver is defined by the PSID as the person who knows the most about the child and is usually the mother. If the mother is not living with the family, the respondent could be the father, legal guardian, or another adult knowledgeable about the child. The survey is given either face to face or over the phone by the interviewer.
Psychometrics/Data Quality
There was a 100-percent response rate completing the child booklet of the primary caregiver questionnaire. Specific information about the child care section is not readily available.
Languages Available
The questionnaires are available in English and Spanish.
Items Included
The questionnaires are available on the CDS Web page at http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/CDS/questionnaires.html. Sample questions are included below.
Section H: Child Care
The next questions ask about the child care arrangements or programs that you have used for your (CHILD) since (his/her) birth. We want to start with the first arrangement you used for (CHILD) and then continue through any additional arrangements you may have used, in the order that you used them. We will end the history when (CHILD) started kindergarten. We will be using P. 25 of your booklet.
H1. First, how old was (CHILD) when (he/she) was first cared for by someone other than you (or your spouse) on a regular basis? By regular, I mean at least once a week for a month. Was that before or after (CHILD) started Kindergarten?
H2. What was the main reason you started using this program or arrangement at that time?
Started/returned work
Increased/changed work hours
Started looking for work
Started school
Started other activity
Child needed playmates/activities
Other (specify)
H3. How old was (CHILD) when you started using the program or arrangement?
H4. What type of program or arrangement was that?
Relative in the child’s home
Non-relative in the child’s home (sitter)
Care in a relative’s home
Care in a non-relative’s home (family day care provider)
Head start program
Prekindergarten program, nursery school, preschool, or child care center
Before- or after-school program
Child cares for self alone
Other type of child care (specify)
H5. How many days each week was (CHILD) cared for in this program or arrangement?
________days/week
H6. How many hours each week was (CHILD) cared for in this program or arrangement?
________hours/week
H7. How much did your household pay for this program or arrangement?
H7a. Was that...?
Per hour
Per day
Per week
Every 2 weeks
Every month
Every year
Other, (specify)
H7b. Was that amount for (CHILD) only, or did it cover other children in your household?
Child only
Other children in the household
H7c. How many other children did it cover?
___________ # of children
H8. How old was (CHILD) when you stopped using this program or arrangement?
___________ years
___________ months
H9. What was the reason that program or arrangement ended?
H10. Did you use any other programs or arrangements (before (CHILD) entered school) that you have not told me about?
Yes
No
[IF YES, REPEAT QUESTIONS H2. – H9.]
References and Source Documents
The CDS-Child Care Series. Available at http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/child-development/home.html
The PSID-CDS Web site: http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/CDS/
The Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics 1997 User Guide. Available at http://psidonline.isr.umich.edu/CDS/userguide.html
Hofferth, S., Davis-Kean, P., Davis J., & Finkelstein, J. (1997). Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics: 1997 user guide. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research. Retrieved June 6, 2003, from http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/child-development/usergd.html
University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center. (1997). English questionnaires. Ann Arbor: Author. Retrieved June 30, 1999, from http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/child-development/english.html
University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center. (1999). Description of the 1997 PSID Child Development Supplement weights. Ann Arbor: Author. Retrieved June 30, 1999, from http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/child-development/weightsdoc.html
University of Michigan, Institute for Social Research, Survey Research Center. (n.d.). Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. Ann Arbor: Author. Retrieved from http://www.isr.umich.edu/src/child-development/home.html
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