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Providing Child Care to Military Families
The Role of the Demand Formula in Defining Need and Informing Policy
The Department of Defense (DoD) recognizes that high-quality child care for military families impacts both readiness and retention. DoD was concerned, however, that the child-care demand formula it uses may not be addressing all relevant aspects of child-care need. As such, the Office of the Secretary of Defense asked the RAND Corporation to assess the DoD formula as a tool for translating information on military families into measures of potential child-care need and to suggest ways that the tool might be improved. To perform this assessment, RAND conducted 21 focus groups on eight installations and from them developed a survey to determine parental preferences and other factors that might affect child-care need. In light of the survey results, the authors assess the validity of the DoD formula in meeting the child-care needs of military families, analyze the factors that influence key child-care outcomes, and address the broader issue of how DoD can refine its goals for military child care.
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Contents
Chapter One:
Introduction
Chapter Two:
Examining DoD Child-Care Demand Formula Assumptions
Chapter Three:
Accuracy of the DoD Child-Care Formula Estimate
Chapter Four:
Evaluating How the Current Child-Care System Is Serving Military Families
Chapter Five:
Conclusions and Recommendations
Appendix A:
Components of the Child-Care Need Formula: DoD and the Military Services
Appendix B:
Military Child Care Survey
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