Description
The ACF-800 aggregate data are collected annually. States and territories submit their annual aggregate data electronically to the Child Care Automated Reporting System (CARS) by December 31st (three months after fiscal years ends).
Units of Response: CCDF Lead Agencies
Type of Data: Administrative
Tribal Data: No
COVID-19 Data: Yes
Periodicity: Annual
SORN: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/04/02/2015-07440/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records-notice
Data Use Agreement: Unavailable
Data Use Agreement Location: Unavailable
Equity Indicators: Not Applicable
Granularity: State
Spatial: United States
Geocoding: Zip Code
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Characteristics of Families Served by the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Based on Preliminary FY2019 Data | HTML | CCDF child care subsidies help low-income families with children under age 13 pay for child care so that parents can work or participate in training or education activities. Parents typically receive subsidies in the form of vouchers that they can use with a provider of their choice — such as a relative, neighbor, child care center, or after-school program. States and Territories have a great deal of flexibility to establish child care subsidy policies to meet their needs. Thus, national data on the characteristics of families served masks a large degree of variation across individual States as observed in the preliminary FY 2019 data tables available at https://acf.hhs.gov/occ/data/fy-2019-ccdf-data-tables-preliminary Data Product Type: Fact Sheet | Open resource |
| Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Report to Congress for Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017 | HTML | This biennial Report to Congress for fiscal year (FY) 2016 and FY 2017 was prepared in accordance with Section 658L of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act, as amended. The report provides information about the role of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) in helping eligible low-income working families to access child care, and improving the quality of child care programs for all children. CCDF is a multi-billion dollar federal and state partnership administered by the Office of Child Care (OCC) within the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). CCDF provides funding to states, territories, and tribes for child care subsidies to help low-income families with children under age 13 pay for child care so that parents can work or participate in training or education activities. Parents typically receive subsidies in the form of vouchers or certificates that they can use with a provider of their choice–whether a relative, neighbor, child care center, or after-school program. CCDF provides grants and contracts to providers in some states. States, territories, and tribes have a great deal of flexibility to establish child care subsidy policies to meet the needs of the families they serve. Data Product Type: Report | Open resource |
| Child Care and Development Fund Report to Congress FY 2014-2015 | HTML | This Report to Congress is required by Section 658L of the Child Care and Development Block Grant (CCDBG) Act as amended. The report provides information about the role of the Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF), which is authorized under the CCDBG Act, in improving access to high-quality child care in states, territories, and tribes.1 This report covers fiscal years 2014 and 2015. While the program’s authorizing statute was reauthorized during this period, the law had not yet been implemented in many states. The data and analysis contained in this report are from a variety of sources, including administrative data about children and families receiving CCDF services. Some data was not yet available at the time this report was drafted in accordance with the statutory submission deadline, but that data will be posted online. This report includes highlights of CCDF program activities, information on activities states and territories are doing to improve the quality of child care across the country, and an overview of the Administration for Children and Families’ Technical Assistance and Research projects. The report closes with a look to the future. Data Product Type: Report | Open resource |