A National Portrait of Unlisted Home-Based Child Care Providers: Provider Demographics, Economic Well-being, and Health
OPRE Brief #2022-280
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Home Based Child Care Supply and Quality
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U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation
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Key Findings
- Unlisted, unpaid providers were mainly older relatives, often caring for grandchildren, and most identified as White, non-Hispanic.
- Unlisted, paid providers were younger, were more likely to identify as Black or Hispanic/Latino/a, experienced lower levels of wealth as measured by low household income and low rates of home ownership, and had less access to health care compared to other home-based child care (HBCC) providers.
Home-based child care (HBCC) providers—those who provide at-home, nonparental child care—include listed providers, and unlisted providers who do and do not receive payment. Unlisted providers make up 94 percent of the HBCC provider workforce and serve more than 98 percent of all children who receive care in HBCC settings. Yet, research on HBCC lags behind research on center-based child care and early education (CCEE), and the least is known about unlisted providers.
A series of four analysis briefs uses infographics to present a national portrait of unlisted HBCC providers from the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE). The findings can be used to inform supports for unlisted HBCC providers, to guide outreach and engagement of HBCC providers, and to shape future research to better understand unlisted HBCC providers. This brief examines the demographics, economic well-being, and health of unlisted HBCC providers.
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