Childcare Landscape Study - Flipbook - Page 26
Davidson County Child Care Landscape Study Results
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The number of educators within predefined hourly wage ranges, reported separately
by role (lead educator and assistant/rotating assistant)
The number of educators who were hired and left their program in the prior 12
months, used to calculate provider-level annual turnover rates
Center-Based Program Analyses
Early childhood educator workforce characteristics were collected at the educator level. To
prevent centers with larger staff from disproportionately influencing the estimates, educator
counts were aggregated to the center level. Center-level calculations were converted to
population-level estimates using the same post-stratification weights based on licensed capacity.
This approach was applied across workforce constructs, including:
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Educational attainment
Years of experience
CDA credential attainment
Hourly wages
Staff turnover
Estimates of Early Childhood Educator Wages
Hourly wage estimates are derived from director-reported counts of educators within
predefined $2-per-hour wage ranges (e.g., $15.01-$17.00 per hour), reported separately for
lead educators and assistant/rotating assistant educators. To estimate the average hourly
wage for each educator, the midpoint of each wage range was used (e.g., the range from
$13.01 to $15.00 has a midpoint of $14.00).
To reduce the influence of large centers in the survey sample and better approximate the
distribution of providers in the region, midpoint wages were first used to calculate average
wages within each center, both across all roles and separately by role (i.e., lead and
assistant/rotating assistant). Each center-level estimate was weighted using post-stratification
weights by licensed capacity category. These weights adjust to an analytic sample so that the
distribution of centers by size aligns with the population of reachable licensed centers. Results
are presented as a weighted average of center-level wages across reporting sites.
Home-Based Program Analyses
Because of the structure of home-based care, directors and any additional educators they
employ were combined for these analyses. Not all director-reported characteristic measures
were included in the analyses for home-based programs, and only constructs that could be
meaningfully interpreted were reported. Given the small population and sample size of
home-based programs, findings are limited to descriptive analyses of survey respondents at
the aggregate level. Population-level extrapolation was not conducted. Differences by
location were also not examined.
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