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This report describes the methodology for the TRLECE project’s three surveys regarding child care and early education (CCEE) licensing (i.e., surveys of CCEE licensing administrators, front-line licensing staff, and CCEE providers).

A case study of four state child care and early education licensing agencies’ approaches to working with license-exempt providers.

This document describes the Analysis Plan for evaluating the impacts of the Pathways for Advancing Careers and Education (PACE) project and the first round of Health Profession Opportunity Grants (HPOG 1.0) on key outcomes nine years after random assignment into the program.

This landscape analysis presents findings on school-age child care data sources, their strengths, and gaps.

This research brief series documents the historical contexts in which the different waves of the NSECE were developed and fielded, and shares important research and methodological advances made possible by the NSECE.

Learn research-based answers to key questions about families’ access to public pre-K programs.

This video features parents describing the many factors they consider when looking for child care and early education.

The Early Care and Education Leadership Study (ExCELS) measure administration and scoring guide provides information to support users in administering and scoring the ExCELS measure.

This snapshot uses longitudinal data from 2019, 2021, and 2022 in the National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE) to examine the mental health and well-being of the center-based CCEE workforce from 2019, by race and ethnicity.

This brief draws from data collected in the 2019 NSECE Center-based Provider Survey. In the NSECE, a center-based provider delivers CCEE services to children aged five and under, not yet in kindergarten, at a single location. This brief describes how enrollment and vacancies at center-based child care and early education (CCEE) programs can be estimated using data from the 2019 National Survey of Early Care and Education (NSECE).