Providing Child Care to Military Families

The Role of the Demand Formula in Defining Need and Informing Policy

Joy S. Moini, Gail L. Zellman, Susan M. Gates

ResearchPublished Oct 10, 2006

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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Moini, Joy S., Gail L. Zellman, and Susan M. Gates, Providing Child Care to Military Families: The Role of the Demand Formula in Defining Need and Informing Policy, RAND Corporation, MG-387-OSD, 2006. As of October 10, 2024: https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG387.html
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Moini, Joy S., Gail L. Zellman, and Susan M. Gates, Providing Child Care to Military Families: The Role of the Demand Formula in Defining Need and Informing Policy. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2006. https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG387.html. Also available in print form.
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