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Child Care Licensing Study, 2011
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Updated Oct 29, 2026
About this dataset
The purpose of the 2011 Child Care Licensing Study is to report two aspects of child care licensing from 2011 for all 50 states and the District of Columbia (not including Idaho): (1) state child care licensing programs and policies and (2) child care center and family child care home licensing regulations. The study focuses on the processes and policies in each state related to staffing for the licensing program, monitoring facilities, and enforcement of licensing regulations.
To collect information on states' licensing policies, including staffing, monitoring, and enforcement of licensing regulations, the National Association for Regulatory Administration (NARA) disseminated the 2011 NARA Child Care Licensing Program Survey to all state child care licensing agencies in May 2012. Responses were received from all states. The survey focused on the processes and policies in each state related to staffing for the licensing program, monitoring facilities, and enforcement of licensing regulations.
<b>Units of Response: </b>State
<b>Type of Data: </b>Survey
<b>Tribal Data: </b>No
<b>Periodicity: </b>One-time
<b>Demographic Indicators: </b>Not Applicable
<b>SORN: </b> https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2022/01/24/2022-01066/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records
<b>Data Use Agreement: </b>Unavailable
<b>Data Use Agreement Location: </b> Not Applicable
<b>Granularity: </b>State
<b>Spatial: </b>United States
<b>Geocoding: </b>Unavailable
Data and resources (8)
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DS1 State Licensing Programs and Policies Data
State licensing programs and policies data. Temporal: January 2011 – December 2011, Restriction: Public-use Aggregate, Formats: ASCII, DELIMITED, SAS, SPSS, STATA
Modified Oct 29, 2026
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DS1 State Licensing Programs and Policies Data
State licensing programs and policies data. Temporal: January 2011 – December 2011, Restriction: Public-use Aggregate, Formats: ASCII, DELIMITED, SAS, SPSS, STATA
Modified Oct 29, 2026
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DS2 State Child Care Center Regulations Data
State child care center regulations data. Temporal: January 2011 – December 2011, Restriction: Public-use Aggregate, Formats: ASCII, DELIMITED, SAS, SPSS, STATA
Modified Oct 29, 2026
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DS2 State Child Care Center Regulations Data
State child care center regulations data. Temporal: January 2011 – December 2011, Restriction: Public-use Aggregate, Formats: ASCII, DELIMITED, SAS, SPSS, STATA
Modified Oct 29, 2026
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DS3 State Small Family Child Care Home Regulations Data
State small family child care home regulations data. Temporal: January 2011 – December 2011, Restriction: Public-use Aggregate, Formats: ASCII, DELIMITED, SAS, SPSS, STATA
Modified Oct 29, 2026
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DS3 State Small Family Child Care Home Regulations Data
State small family child care home regulations data. Temporal: January 2011 – December 2011, Restriction: Public-use Aggregate, Formats: ASCII, DELIMITED, SAS, SPSS, STATA
Modified Oct 29, 2026
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DS4 State Large/Group Family Child Care Home Regulations Data
State large/group family child care home regulations data. Temporal: January 2011 – December 2011, Restriction: Public-use Aggregate, Formats: ASCII, DELIMITED, SAS, SPSS, STATA
Modified Oct 29, 2026
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DS4 State Large/Group Family Child Care Home Regulations Data
State large/group family child care home regulations data. Temporal: January 2011 – December 2011, Restriction: Public-use Aggregate, Formats: ASCII, DELIMITED, SAS, SPSS, STATA
Modified Oct 29, 2026