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DDI2.5 XML CODEBOOK RECORD FOR STUDY NUMBER 6057 Childcare and Early Years Provision: Parents' Survey, 2007 605710.5255/UKDA-SN-6057-1 National Centre for Social Research Department for Children, Schools and Families <a href="https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/information-management/re-using-public-sector-information/uk-government-licensing-framework/crown-copyright/" target="_blank">© Crown copyright</a>. The use of these data is subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">UK Data Service End User Licence Agreement</a>. Additional restrictions may also apply. Department for Children, Schools and Families UK Data Service 07 November 2008 CHILD DAY CAREPARENTSLIFE EVENTSEXTENDED FAMILYFAMILY MEMBERSFAMILY BENEFITSFINANCIAL SUPPORTEDUCATIONAL FACILITIESEDUCATIONAL INFORMATIONPARENT ATTITUDEEDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENTEDUCATIONAL EXPENDITUREECONOMIC ACTIVITYSIBLINGSINCOMEETHNIC GROUPSHOURS OF WORKEDUCATIONAL ATTENDANCEPRE-PRIMARY SCHOOLSCHILD-MINDERSSCHOOL CLUBSMARITAL STATUSCHILDRENTIMEFINANCINGINFORMATION SOURCESDISABILITIESAGESPOUSE'S ECONOMIC ACTIVITYNURSERY SCHOOLSMATERNITY LEAVEMATERNITY PAYEMPLOYMENTWORKING MOTHERSSELF-EMPLOYEDDISABLED CHILDRENCARSSPOUSES Compulsory and pre-school educationSocial behaviour and attitudesChildrenFamily life and marriage Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.The introduction of the National Childcare Strategy in 1998 marked a radical shift in government policy and for the first time put childcare provision firmly on the political map. Since then a wide range of childcare initiatives and funding streams have been introduced, and hence there is a need for regular data to aid the evaluation of recent policy interventions in these areas. The Childcare and Early Years Provision survey series is divided into two survey strands: the Parents’ Survey and the Providers’ Survey. The Parents’ Survey provides data on parents’ take-up, views and experiences of childcare. Families in England are randomly selected from the Child Benefit Records and all parents had children aged 0-14 years. They are asked about their use and experiences of childcare for all children in the family and to give more detailed information about childcare for a particular child (selected at random where there is more than one child in the family). The current Parents' Survey series replaces two previous surveys: the Survey of Parents of Three and Four-Year-Old Children and Their Use of Early Years Services (conducted between 1997 and 2002) and Parents' Demand for Childcare, conducted in 1999 and 2001 (see SNs 4380 and 4970 respectively). The Providers' Survey monitors the characteristics and development of childcare and early years providers and the workforce in England. Information was collected on the number and characteristics of providers, the characteristics of the children enrolled, workforce composition, qualifications and training, recruitment and retention, and business operation. The 2016 survey underwent an extensive redesign, which means findings are not comparable with previous surveys. The 2020 survey was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic Further information is available on the GOV.UK <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years" title="Childcare and Early Years Statistics" target="_blank">Childcare and Early Years Statistics</a> webpage. <div>Special licence data</div><div>Additional, more detailed variables from the Providers' Survey in 2018, 2019 and 2021 are available under Special Licence (SL). The SL data have more restrictive access conditions than those made available under the standard End User Licence (EUL) agreement. Prospective users of the SL version will need to complete an extra application form and demonstrate to the data owners exactly why they need access to the additional variables in order to get permission to use that version. Users are advised to consult the EUL version first and the list of variables available under each study before applying.</div><div> </div>The current Parents' Survey series replaces two previous surveys: the Survey of Parents of Three and Four Year Old Children and Their Use of Early Years Services (conducted between 1997 and 2002) and the Parents’ Demand for Childcare (conducted in 1999 and 2001) (the latter series is held at the UKDA under GN 33341). The Childcare and Early Years Provision: Parents’ Survey, 2007 is the most recent survey in this series and provides up-to-date information to assess some important policy initiatives introduced since the last survey. The main aim of the 2007 survey was to gather up-to-date, robust and comprehensive information on parents’ use of, need for and attitudes towards childcare and early years provision. The survey also aimed to continue the time series data on issues covered in the previous survey in the series. The survey series uses an inclusive definition of childcare and early years provision as parents were asked to include any time that their child was not with resident parents or at school. This included informal care provided by grandparents and ex-partners as well as formal care; and included times when parents were working and when they were not. Parents were asked their reasons for using childcare, enabling us to report on childcare used for economic reasons, and childcare used for the child's education. Further information is available on the NatCen <a href= "http://www.natcen.ac.uk/topic/childcare" title ="Childcare">Childcare</a> web page. Main Topics: The survey broadly covered the following topics:<ul><li>use of childcare and early years provision in the last year and in the last week</li><li>costs of childcare</li><li>sources of information on childcare provision</li><li>attitudes towards childcare provision in the local area</li><li>reasons for using and views of the main formal provider</li><li>reasons for using more than one provider</li><li>background details on the family structure</li><li>socio-demographics</li><li>parents’ work details</li></ul> January 2007 - April 200701 January 200701 April 2007 England IndividualsNational Families on the Child Benefit Records with children aged 0-14 years as at November 2006. Numeric Repeated cross-sectional study Multi-stage stratified random sample Face-to-face interview The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the <a href="https://ukdataservice.ac.uk/app/uploads/cd137-enduserlicence.pdf" target="_blank">End User Licence Agreement</a>. See <restrctn> https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/statistics-childcare-and-early-years Badger, T., Fitzpatrick, N. and Paull, G., (2022) 'How much could relaxing regulations on staff ratios reduce the cost of childcare?', Frontier Economics https://lnkd.in/enG2gScQ https://oai.ukdataservice.ac.uk:8443/oai/provider 6057 2024-11-28T07:27:22Z ddi:codebook:2_5