Does auspice matter in early learning and child care?
Issues in for-profit and not-for-profit child care

Canadian documents

The non-profit advantage: Producing quality in thick and thin child care markets
G. Cleveland & M. Krashinsky
SOURCE: Toronto: University of Toronto at Scarborough, Division of Management. 2005.
Full report in pdf

The quality gap: A study of non-profit and commercial child care centres in Canada
This report analyzes the You Bet I Care! data set to explore quality differences in non-profit and commercial child care.
G. Cleveland & M. Krashinsky
SOURCE: Toronto: University of Toronto at Scarborough, Division of Management. 2005.
Full report in pdf

Enquête québécoise sur la qualité des services de garde éducatifs: Grandir en qualité 2003 [Québec survey on the quality of educational daycare]
A survey of regulated child care services across Quebec conducted in the spring of 2003 with the objective of describing the quality of child care services.
SOURCE: Gouvernment de Québec. Insitut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ), 2004
- Full report in French to order
- Summary reports available in French to download
- Project description in English
- Report highlights in English

Étude longitudinale du développement des enfants du Québec (ÉLDEQ 1998-2002)
This longitudinal study from Quebec followed 2,120 children from birth to five years of age. It also included other pertinent data including the quality of child care programs that they attended. The study is no longer funded.
SOURCE: Gouvernment de Québec. Insitut de la statistique du Québec (ISQ), 2004
- Volume 3 project reports in French
- Volume 3 project reports in English

PowerPoint slides from a presentation entitled Child care quality: Results from the longitudinal study on child development in Quebec (ÉLDEQ) (R. Tremblay, C. Japel & S. Côté to the European Society for Social Pediatrics annual meeting), In print: CIRC ID# 17659

A report entitled Are young children in Quebec well cared for? Towards an integrated policy for the development of human resources (R. Tremblay, C, Japel & S. Côté presented to the Committee of Social Affairs of the National Assembly of Quebec, translation by Christine Schippers, Manitoba Centre for Health Policy), In print: CIRC ID# 17660

A monograph on the ÉLDEQ study is forthcoming from the Institute for Research on Public Policy in 2005.

Child care by default or design?: An exploration of differences between non-profit and for-profit Canadian child care centres using the You Bet I Care! data sets
This analysis is based on the You Bet I Care! data sets, especially Report 2: Caring and learning environments: Quality in child care centres across Canada.
G. Doherty, M. Friendly & B. Forer
SOURCE: Toronto: Childcare Resource and Research Unit, University of Toronto, 2002
- Report in pdf
- BRIEFing Note in pdf

The deficiencies of commercial day care
S. Prentice
SOURCE: Policy Options, 18 (1): 42-46. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy, 1997
In print: CIRC ID# 9967

A sociological examination of the child care auspice debate
Number 6 in CRRU’s Occasional Paper series, this report is an edited version of a PhD dissertation submitted by the author to the Department of Sociology, University of Calgary.
B. Friesen
SOURCE: Toronto: Childcare Resource and Research Unit, University of Toronto. 1995.
Report in pdf

In print: The original dissertation, A sociological examination of the effects of auspice on day care quality, CIRC ID# 6234

The Atlantic Day Care Study and the Child Care Management Study
This article reports the studies’ findings related to quality and auspice.
M. Lyon & P. Canning
SOURCE: Linking Research to Practice: A Canadian Forum: 253-258. Ottawa: Canadian Child Care Federation, 1999
In print: CIRC ID# 13576

Auspice, location, provincial legislation and funding of day care in Atlantic Canada: Relationships with centre quality and implications for policy
M. Lyon & P. Canning
SOURCE: Canadian Journal of Research in Early Childhood Education, 6 (2): 139-155
In print: CIRC ID# 10704

The Atlantic day care study
M. Lyon & P. Canning
SOURCE: Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University. 1995.
In print: CIRC ID# 8842

Profit and non-profit day care: A comparison of quality, caregiver behaviour, and structural features
D. Mill, N. Bartlett & D.R. White
SOURCE: Canadian Journal of Early Childhood Education, 4 (2): 45-53, 1995
In print: CIRC ID# 7157

See also:

The business of child care: The issue of auspice [See Reviews and overviews section]

International documents

Differences between community owned and privately owned early childhood education and care centres: A review of evidence
L. Mitchell
SOURCE: Wellington, New Zealand: New Zealand Council for Educational Research. 2002.
Report in pdf

Child care center quality differences: The role of profit status, client preferences, and trust
J. Morris & S. Helburn
SOURCE: Noprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, 29 (3): 377-399. 2000.
In print: CIRC ID# 14850

Teacher–child interaction and child-care auspices as predictors of social outcomes in infants, toddlers, and preschoolers
K. McCartney, S. Scarr, A. Rocheleau, et al.
SOURCE: Merril-Palmer Quarterly, 43 (3): 426-450. 1997.
In print: CIRC ID# 11298

Cost, quality, and child outcomes study
SOURCE: Denver: University of Colorado. 1995.
In print:
Technical report, CIRC ID# 8315
Executive summary, CIRC ID# 7882

Who cares? Child care teachers and the quality of care in America: Final report of the National Child Care Staffing Study
M. Whitebook, C. Howes & D. Phillips
SOURCE: Berkely, California: Child Care Employee Project. 1990.
In print:
Main report, CIRC ID# 3511
Executive summary, CIRC ID# 3259

The social policy context of child care: Effects on quality
This article provides an analysis of data from the National Child Care Staffing Study.
D. Phillips, C. Howes, M. Whitebook
SOURCE: American Journal of Community Psychology, 20 (1): 25-51. 1992.
In print: CIRC ID# 6065

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