DETERMINING NEED FOR SUBSIDIZED CHILD

CARE IN WEST L.A.

Huma Husain

UP 206 Midterm

February 8, 2010

Background

Governor Schwarzenegger cut a $256 million program for subsidized child care

Many remaining programs only subsidize child care for families on welfare

How do low-income working families get support for child care so that they can keep their jobs?

Project Questions Where are licensed child care centers in my

neighborhood?

What are the levels of need for subsidies in this area?

Which tracts would benefit most from subsidy programs?

Where should we put new subsidized child care centers?

Income and Poverty

# of Families with Children Below Poverty

Median Income of Families with Children

Skills UsedSlide 3: Inset Map GeocodingChildCare Centers Attribute Sub-Set Selection: West LA was derived by querying CA Zips where zipcode = (90024,

90025, 90064, 90067) Geoprocessing: Clipping CA tracts to Zipcode region

Slide 4: Geoprocessing: Clipping CA blockgroups to Zipcode region

Slide 6: Buffering

Slide 7: Creating an Index: normalized variables to scale of 0 to 100 and averaged the three scores

( Variables = Families with Children under 5 yrs old + Households with No car + Families with Children below poverty)

Slide 8: Boundary Sub-Set Selection: Selecting only the schools within zipcode region

Possible Research for Final Looking at daycares for a broader region

Determining cost and capacity of licensed child care centers

Finding out what subsidy programs currently do exist, where they are located, and how much of costs they subsidize