Early childhood education and care in Canada
New edition:
Interim space statistics 2024
Since the early 1990s, CRRU has published pan-Canadian compilations of early childhood education and care (ECEC) data about every two years – Canada’s main source of consistently collected, longitudinal, cross-Canada data and information about regulated child care. The reports include profiles of ECEC services in each province and territory including information on spaces, funding, regulations, staffing, and governance, as well as data and information on kindergarten and parental leave. Cross-Canada tables present useful data on key topics and trends, covering the period from 1992 to the present. The Backgrounder provides further details. ECEC in Canada publications are available to download using the links below. Versions through 2008 were also available in print.
Interim Space Statistics 2024: Early Childhood Education and Care in Canada is the latest report in the ECEC in Canada series. The interim report provides timely space statistics in response to Canada’s rapidly evolving child care landscape. It includes numerical data about spaces in regulated child care for 2024 and uses these data to explore the period from 2019 through 2024, during the period in which the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care plan (known as CWELCC or $10 a day child care) had begun to make a significant impact.
The next regular report in the series, the 15th version of ECEC in Canada, will be published in December 2025. With both 2024 and 2025 data, the report will include information about policies, programs, funding, the ECEC workforce, and more Canada-wide and longitudinal comparisons.