ECE-Learning: A National Review of Early Childhood Education Distance Learning Programs (PDF). FREE!
This report attempts to explore distance learning in the early childhood field at the end of the first decade of the twenty-first century. It provides a snapshot of the current distance learning landscape.

Determinants of State Child Care Utilization Patterns for Estimating the Size of the Child Care Workforce at the State Level: Year 2 Full Report (PDF). FREE!
This report, completed jointly by CCW/AFTEF and the Human Services Policy Center (HSPC), is the culmination of a two-year project funded by the Child Care Bureau, Administration on Children, Youth and Families, to derive a “demand-based” approach to develop a statistical model that can be used to generate child care workforce estimates at the state level.

Inside the Pre-K Classroom: A Study of Staffing and Stability in State-Funded Prekindergarten Programs (PDF). FREE!
This study released in 2002 by CCW, documents the current state of staff qualifications, stability, turnover and compensation in state-funded prekindergarten programs. It also identifies conditions under which Pre-K initiatives promote a more skilled and stable, and better compensated, early care and education workforce.

Hard copy $15.00

Estimating the Size and Characteristics of the U.S. Child Care Workforce Full Report (PDF) FREE!

Executive Summary FREE!
This publication by CCW and the Human Services Policy Center (HSPC) contains national estimates of the size and characteristics of the workforce serving children ages 0 to 5 (excluding children enrolled in kindergarten) and also attempts to build a new vocabulary for describing the workforce, conceptualizing and categorizing it more clearly than it has been done before.

Hard copy $10.00

Then and Now: Changes in Child Care Staffing, 1994-2000 (PDF) FREE!
This Publication by CCW and the Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California at Berkeley. A landmark study of staffing and stability in child care centers which provides a uniquely detailed look at teacher and director retention and turnover. This publication updates CCW’s 1997 study of “NAEYC Accreditation as a Strategy for Improving Child Care Quality,” (PDF) offering new information on the ability of accredited centers to maintain quality gains over several years. “Then and Now” is one of the few longitudinal child care center studies ever undertaken, and the only one to repeatedly observe those centers over time.

Hard copy $15.00

Low Wages for Staff High Costs to Children: State-by-State Wage Data for the Early Childhood Education Workforce (PDF) FREE!
This compendium of the most recent available early childhood workforce data includes information on average center-based salaries in all 50 states compiled by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Also available:
2004 Edition (PDF)
2002 Edition (PDF)
2001 Edition (PDF)
2000 Edition (PDF)

California Child Care Workforce Reports.
Click on the links below to download survey information for the following counties

Family Care Reports		Center Reports
Alameda (PDF) Kern (PDF) Monterey (PDF) San Benito (PDF) Santa Clara (PDF) Santa Cruz (PDF) San Francisco (PDF) San Mateo (PDF)		Alameda (PDF) Kern (PDF) Monterey (PDF) San Benito (PDF) Santa Clara (PDF) Santa Cruz (PDF) San Francisco (PDF) San Mateo (PDF)