Determinants of State Child Care Utilization Patterns for Estimating the Size of the Child Care Workforce at the State Level

This report, completed jointly by CCW/AFTEF and the Human Services Policy Center (HSPC), is the culmination of a two-year project funded by the Child Care Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, to derive a “demand-based” approach to develop a statistical model that can be used to generate child care workforce estimates at the state level.