AUTHORS: Juliet Bromer, Marisa Schlieber, and Rena Hallam
August 2025
HBCC Research Essentials Toolkit: Research Considerations
This resource is intended to guide researchers and evaluators about the aspects of home-based child care (HBCC) that are distinct from other child care and early education (CCEE) settings. Understanding some of the unique aspects of provider and setting characteristics as well as the regulatory and policy contexts in which HBCC providers offer care and education can inform research questions, design, sampling, and data collection. Researchers, evaluators, and data collectors may use this resource to guide their understanding of the HBCC sector and its many distinctions when designing research agendas, generating research and policy-relevant research questions, and focusing on specific areas to address the needs of the sector.