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FFY 2006 CCDF Data Tables (Final Data, July 2008)

Index: 1-Average Monthly Families and Children Served | 2-Percent of Children Served by Payment Method | 3-Percent of Children Served by Types of Care | 4-Percent of Children Served in Regulated Settings vs. Settings Legally Operating without Regulation | 5-Percent Served by Relatives vs. Non-Relatives | 6-Percent of Children Served in All Types of Care | 7-Number of Child Care Providers Receiving CCDF Funds | 8-Methods of Consumer Education Summary | 9-Children Served by Age Group | 10-Children Served by Reason for Care | 11-Children by Racial Group | 12-Children by Latino Ethnicity | 13-Care by Age Category and Type of Care | 14-Care By Age Group and Care Type | 15-Expenditures By Age Group and Care Type | 16-TANF as a Source of Income | 17-Co-payment as a Percent of Family Income
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Table 15
Child Care and Development Fund
Average Monthly Expenditures for Children In Care By Age Group and Care Type (FFY 2006)
Age Group Child's Home Family Home Group Home Center Weighted
Averages
0 to < 1 yr $298 $369 $464 $454 $413
1 to < 2 yrs $303 $380 $491 $457 $425
2 to < 3 yrs $300 $376 $474 $445 $420
3 to < 4 yrs $295 $358 $464 $428 $407
4 to < 5 yrs $283 $345 $450 $428 $403
5 to < 6 yrs $282 $321 $396 $377 $357
6 to < 13 yrs $259 $291 $365 $291 $290
13+ yrs $273 $287 $323 $286 $285
National $275 $330 $429 $386 $363

Notes applicable to this table:
1. The source for this table is ACF-801 data for FFY 2006.
2. Nationally 2.1% of the children served with CCDF funds were excluded from the above table because either their age was invalid/not reported or one or more setting elements of a child's setting record was invalid or not reported.
3. Cost is defined as the total amount received by the provider. It is the sum of the State subsidy and the family copay.
4. Average costs per month were based on sums of costs per month in categories divided by counts of children in categories as further defined below.
5. All counts are "adjusted" numbers of families and children unless otherwise indicated. These "adjusted" numbers represent the number funded through CCDF only. The "adjusted" number is the raw or "unadjusted" number reported by the State multiplied by the pooling factor as reported on the ACF-800. DC has indicated that the pooling factor reported on the ACF-800 is not applicable to the ACF-801. This report takes this factor into consideration in calculating the "adjusted" numbers or percentages.
6. All States provide an actual unadjusted count of families served each month. For States reporting full population data, the number of child records reported each month were directly counted. However, for States that only submit samples, the ratio of children-to-families was determined each month from the samples and then multiplied by the reported number of families to obtain an estimate of the unadjusted number of children served each month. The unadjusted average number of families and children were obtained from the monthly numbers in the Federal Fiscal Year (FFY).
7. At the time of publication American Samoa had not yet reported ACF-801 data for FFY 2006 and Guam only submitted ten (10) months of data.
8. Connecticut does not report ACF-801 data on all or nearly all children served by contracted centers. Alaska's reported population does not accurately reflect the population served from October 2005 through January 2006 by CCDF due to sampling difficulties. However, Alaska began reporting full population data in February 2006. Alaska does not report any children in foster care or families headed by a child.
9. For children served by multiple providers, the child's count is proportioned based on the ratio of the monthly hours with each provider divided by the monthly total hours of service. The average hours and payments for each State-month combination are based on the sum of hours in each category divided by the sum of proportional counts in each category. The State's annual results are determined by calculating a weighted average of the monthly results where the weight was the "adjusted" number of children served in each month. The national results shown above represent a weighted average of the State's fiscal annual results where the weight for each State is the average monthly "adjusted" number of children served in each State for the fiscal year.
10. The current Technical Bulletin 3 indicates that a payment over $1,000 per month is considered above the Out of Range Standard and therefore is considered invalid. However, the FFY 2005 market survey data from the highest cost areas of some States shows that the 75-percentile full-time child care market rate cost is above $1,000 per month. In addition several States have indicated in their ACF-801 notes that they have valid costs over $1,000. States that have been identified with this issue are: Minnesota, Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Wisconsin, California, Washington, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New York and Oregon. Nationally approximately 1% of the reported cost data in FFY 2005 exceeded $1,000 and no State had more than 5% exceeding $1,000. It is anticipated that the percentage of valid costs that exceed $1,000 would be slightly higher in FFY 2006 than in FFY 2005. (Note that some of these data percentages with costs over $1,000 were very large and thus clearly invalid.) The Child Care Bureau has increased this Out of Range Standard to $2,000 effective October 1, 2006 (FFY 2007), so this should not be an issue in FFY 2007 data.
11. Some States have been reporting the maximum number of hours authorized and/or dollars authorized rather than the actual number provided.
Index: 1-Average Monthly Families and Children Served | 2-Percent of Children Served by Payment Method | 3-Percent of Children Served by Types of Care | 4-Percent of Children Served in Regulated Settings vs. Settings Legally Operating without Regulation | 5-Percent Served by Relatives vs. Non-Relatives | 6-Percent of Children Served in All Types of Care | 7-Number of Child Care Providers Receiving CCDF Funds | 8-Methods of Consumer Education Summary | 9-Children Served by Age Group | 10-Children Served by Reason for Care | 11-Children by Racial Group | 12-Children by Latino Ethnicity | 13-Care by Age Category and Type of Care | 14-Care By Age Group and Care Type | 15-Expenditures By Age Group and Care Type | 16-TANF as a Source of Income | 17-Co-payment as a Percent of Family Income