Estimating the Size and Components of the U.S. Child Care Workforce and Caregiving Population, May 2002

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The demand for data on the child care workforce is rising. Policy makers and organizations are turning increased attention to solving child care staffing problems - not only ensuring adequate staffing to meet families' current and future needs for services, but developing appropriate training programs, as well as local, state and national initiatives to reward and retain child care workers. As they do so, they need complete counts of the size and character of the present workforce, and longer-range estimates of the demand for child care of different types that will factor in not only growth in the profession but high rates of occupational turnover.

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