¶ … Joy Pastan Greenberg & Jessica M. Kahn (2012): Early childhood education and care use: Differences by race/ethnicity and age, Journal of Children and Poverty, 18:1, 23-54
What is (are) the research question(s) or hypothesis (es) in this article?
The research question in the Greenberg and Kahn article is: does age and race/ethnicity affect the enrollment of children in relative, non-relative, and center-based care programs, and, if so, how? Specifically, because previous research has not differentiated age groups, the main hypothesis used in this study is that there will be differences in early childhood education and care use between children of differing ethnicities by age group.
Describe the subject population.
The research population in this study included Latino, white, and black children with children between 0 and 5 years old. To be included in the population,...
Describe the research design or methodology
The sample was derived using public data from the children included in the Early Childhood Program Participation interview of the 2005 National Household Education Survey. Once the sample was determined, an analysis plan was applied to the data to look for variations. This included using a series of regression analyses, inducing ordinal least squares regression and multinomial logit regression. Theses methods were chosen to highlight within-group variation. To identify variations that occur across groups, multinomial regressions were used. Additionally, descriptive statistic techniques, including chi-squares and t-tests, were used to check for statistically significant differences.
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