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Statistics on children, youth and families in Louisiana from the Annie E. Casey Foundation and the Agenda for Children
Center-based child care costs as a percentage of median income in Louisiana
Center-based child care costs as a percentage of median income
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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.
because one or more years have been deselected.
Definition and Source
PROVIDER
Definition
For all data prior to 2020, the median cost for child care in a Type III (or, prior to 2017, a Class A center) as a percentage of the parish's median income. Beginning in 2020, data are reported as the average cost for child care in a Type III center as a percentage of the parish's median income.
Data Source
Agenda for Children's analysis of data from the Louisiana Child Care Market Rate Surveys (2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2020 and median household income data from the U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates Program (SAIPE).
Notes
Because parish-level data are not available, the child care costs for each DCFS region was used as the denominator for all years except 2017. For the 2017 survey, data are reported according to each parish's zone (urban versus nonurban), which was the smallest geography made publicly available.
Data will be updated when the next market rate survey results are released.
Data will be updated when the next market rate survey results are released.
Last Updated
January 2022