Building and Sustaining the Child Care and Early Education Workforce (BASE)
No material or nonsubstantive change to a currently approved collection
No
Regular
Withdrawn and continue
01/26/2024
01/18/2024
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Inventory as of this Action
Requested
Previously Approved
09/30/2025
09/30/2025
09/30/2025
1,618
0
1,618
1,278
0
1,278
0
0
0
The BASE project aims to understand factors that affect child care and early education (CCEE) workforce dynamics, including employment recruitment, retention, and advancement, as well as to build the evidence base about strategies that may help to recruit, retain, and advance the CCEE workforce.
The information collection aims to build the evidence base about the implementation, costs, and impacts of strategies aimed at improving the compensation and economic well-being of educators in child care center-based and home-based settings. The BASE project will do so by leveraging two pilot initiatives being implemented by the Colorado Department of Early Childhood (CDEC) that provide additional funding and supports to center-based child care settings to improve teacher compensation and funding for home-based child care settings to support the provision of benefits to owners (referred to as providers hereafter) and staff (referred to as assistants hereafter).
The study includes four substudies: an Impact Study, a Descriptive Study, an Implementation Study, and a Cost Study.
Since approval, CDEC finalized the intervention plans and as a result, the study team has identified updates needed to two instruments for the home-based provider data collection (i.e., the follow-up home-based provider and assistant survey and the one-on-one home-based provider and assistant interview). We have also identified some alternative procedures that may improve data collection efforts for the center-based providers (i.e., offering potential respondents the alternative to complete a shortened cost workbook.)
Since approval, CDEC finalized the intervention plans and as a result, the study team has identified updates needed to two instruments for the home-based provider data collection (i.e., the follow-up home-based provider and assistant survey and the one-on-one home-based provider and assistant interview). We have also identified some alternative procedures that may improve data collection efforts for the center-based providers (i.e., offering potential respondents the alternative to complete a shortened cost workbook.) The purpose of the data collection is the same as originally described in the approved OMB materials, and the methods of data collection are the same. The changes to the data collection instruments are only meant to remove items and refine the wording of some items to better align with the design and implementation of the finalized intervention with home-based providers, including language used in CDECâs initiative outreach materials, and to reduce burden on home-based providers and assistants and on center-based directors.
On behalf of this Federal agency, I certify that the collection of information encompassed by this request complies with 5 CFR 1320.9 and the related provisions of 5 CFR 1320.8(b)(3).
The following is a summary of the topics, regarding the proposed collection of information, that the certification covers:
(i) Why the information is being collected;
(ii) Use of information;
(iii) Burden estimate;
(iv) Nature of response (voluntary, required for a benefit, or mandatory);
(v) Nature and extent of confidentiality; and
(vi) Need to display currently valid OMB control number;
If you are unable to certify compliance with any of these provisions, identify the item by leaving the box unchecked and explain the reason in the Supporting Statement.
BASE_Nonsubstantive change request_OMB_revised 1.17.2024_FINAL.docx
Appendix D_BASE Project IRB Approval.pdf
8. Center-based setting costs workbook