Compendium of Measures and Indicators of Home-Based Child Care Quality

Millions of families with children from birth to age 12 rely on home-based child care (HBCC)—child care and early education (CCEE) offered in a provider’s home or the child’s home. Much of the research literature and policy discussions about improving the quality of child care focus on care provided in center-based CCEE settings, and many widely-used measures of HBCC quality have their roots in quality measures that were developed for centers. This compendium contains profiles from an Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation review of existing HBCC measures and indicators that focused on features that might be important to understand quality in HBCC.