Research Report Studying the Implementation of DC’s Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund
Technical Documentation for Year 1 Early Educator, Home Operator, and Center Director Surveys
Justin B. Doromal, Erica Greenberg, Elli Nikolopoulos, Eve Mefferd, Heather Sandstrom, Rachel Lamb, Victoria Nelson, Timothy Triplett
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This technical report documents the steps we took to design and administer surveys to two groups of respondents in 2023: early childhood educators eligible for the District of Columbia’s Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, and directors who employed early childhood educators and operated licensed child care programs. As part of a larger study, the surveys sought to document the mission, goals, and implementation of the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund (“Pay Equity Fund”) in its first one and a half years, and to raise up the experiences of early educators eligible for and receiving the Pay Equity Fund payments and the experiences and views of their employers. This report describes the survey development process, survey recruitment and administration procedures, response rates, characteristics of the target population and survey sample, and steps taken to weight, clean, and analyze the data.

Research fact sheets and reports presenting survey findings may be found on the project web page.
Research and Evidence Work, Education, and Labor Family and Financial Well-Being Research to Action Technology and Data Upward Mobility
Expertise Labor Markets Upward Mobility and Inequality Early Childhood
Tags Child care Child care and early education Early childhood education Job markets and labor force Child care workers and early childhood teachers Job quality and workplace standards Children and youth Greater DC Data analysis Data collection Quantitative data analysis
States District of Columbia
Cities Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
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