Trainings & Events

Discover actionable insights to inform policy, advocacy, and community solutions to improve access to affordable child care for Connecticut's families. Join us for a webinar presenting findings from Connecticut’s first RAPID Survey of parents with young children, along with an analysis of childcare affordability across the state.

To contextualize the RAPID Survey results, CTData analyzed data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS) to answer the question: What percentage of Connecticut families can afford market-rate, center-based care for all their young children?

Some of the key findings from the data:

• Only half of income-eligible families have applied for a Care 4 Kids subsidy.
• Most surveyed families spend more than 7% of their household income on childcare—the federal benchmark for affordability.
• About 90% of families would need to spend more than 7% of their income to pay market rates for full-time, center-based care.
• Nearly one-third of families spend three months or more searching for childcare.
• Lower-income families are more likely to experience longer childcare searches.

The webinar will include a walkthrough of our interactive dashboard, which allows users to explore results by demographic group and county.

Conducted with 17 community organizations, the survey gathered input from over 1,800 caregivers of children under age six across Connecticut in May 2024. It covers childcare access, affordability, subsidies, and satisfaction.

This work was funded and directed by The Connecticut Project, in partnership with Stanford University and the CTData Collaborative.