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Final report: 2013 Idaho child care market rate analysis

Description:
The Idaho Department of Health and Welfare (DHW) contracted with The Ohio State University Statistical Consulting Service (SCS) to perform the 2013 Idaho Child Care Market Rate Analysis. The DHW and SCS worked jointly to make decisions regarding the data and methods employed in the analysis and to review and approve the results presented in this report. The goal of the analysis is to characterize the unsubsidized (i.e., private pay) market rates for child care throughout the state of Idaho. The market rate data were obtained from IdahoAEYC, the agency responsible for the state's IdahoSTARS project, which includes the state's Child Care Resource and Referral Services. Provider data are maintained by IdahoAEYC using NACCRRAware, database software that generates child care referrals and reports and manages provider, client, and community data. Provider data were downloaded via text files and uploaded into Excel spreadsheets. The providers included in the analysis were required to be active and located in the state of Idaho, and the type of care provided was limited to child care centers, group care, and family care. In addition to basic information about the provider, the downloaded data included capacity and both full-time and part-time rates for five age groups: 0 - 12 months, 12 - 30 months, 30 - 60 months, 5 - 6 years, and 6 - 12 years. Providers were able to supply their rates in one or more of four modes: monthly, weekly, daily, and hourly rates. In order to perform the market rate analysis on consistent rate data, all rates (full- and part-time) were converted to monthly rate equivalents using standard conversion factors. To evaluate the market structure, three geographic levels were examined -- zip code, county, and region -- as the basic unit for the analysis, and county was selected as the unit that best allowed differentiation between units without a large number of units with missing information. Following methodology used by several other states in their market rate analyses, principal components analysis and cluster analysis were performed to divide counties into groups so that the counties within a group had similar rate structures while counties in different groups had differing rate structures. These analyses resulted in identifying three groups of counties. Multivariate analyses of variance were also performed to compare rates between licensed and exempt family care facilities and between provider types; these analyses showed no significant differences in rates between licensed and exempt family care facilities and no significant differences in rates between family and group care facilities. As a result, the provider types were divided into two groups for the market rate analysis: child care centers, and all group and family care facilities. (author abstract)
Resource Type:
Reports & Papers
Country:
United States
State(s)/Territories/Tribal Nation(s):
Idaho

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