Can We Trust Parental Reports of Child Care Subsidy Receipt?

Publication Date: January 24, 2013
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This brief finds a high degree of overlap between parent and provider report of subsidy receipt using data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study (FFCWS) Child Care Supplement (CCS) dataset. The authors recommend that researchers use administrative data to validate parental report of subsidy receipt whenever possible, but also suggest that the quality of parent-reported survey-based measures of subsidy receipt may be reliable.