ECEC in Canada
ECEC in Canada
Key findings from Early childhood education and care in Canada 2024/2025: Summary and analysis (EN + FR)
Early childhood education and care in Canada 2024/2025
The current edition of ECEC in Canada is now available for download in PDF
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Interim space statistics 2024: Early childhood education and care in Canada
View or download Interim Space Statistics 2024
View or download the French translation of the analysis section, “The state of Canadian early childhood education and care in 2024”: L’état des services d’apprentissage et de garde de jeunes enfants au Canada en 2024
Early childhood education and care in Canada 2023: Summary and analysis (EN & FR)
Early childhood education and care in Canada 2023
The current edition of ECEC in Canada is now available for download in pdf
Download the full publication in pdf. Section pdfs are available below.
See the ECEC in Canada archive for previous editions.
Early childhood education and care in Canada 2021
Current edition of ECEC in Canada available for download in PDF format
February 21, 2024, CRRU released a revised version of ECEC in Canada 2021 (full publication). Any substantive errors in both the main report and the English and French summary reports were revised. Individual chapters are available for download below.
Early childhood education and care in Canada: Background information
Between 1992 and 2026, the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) has developed fifteen versions of ECEC in Canada and several accompanying reports. This report series is unique in a number of ways. As such, it has to date reliably served as Canada’s sole source of consistently collected and presented cross-Canada, longitudinal data and information about regulated child care, kindergarten, and parental leave.
A summary of the Canada-wide early learning and child care agreements and action plans
Executive summary
This document, which provides a summary of selected elements of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care initiative (CWELCC) introduced in 2021, is a supplementary paper to Early childhood education and care in Canada 2021.