TY - BOOK ID - 137764354 TI - Providing child care to military families : the role of the demand formula in defining need and informing policy AU - Moini, Joy S. AU - Zellman, Gail. AU - Gates, Susan M. PY - 2006 PB - Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corporation, DB - UniCat KW - Children of military personnel KW - Employer-supported day care KW - Day care centers KW - Care KW - United States. KW - Officials and employees KW - Salaries, etc. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137764354 AB - The Department of Defense (DoD) recognizes that high-quality child care for military families impacts both readiness and retention. DoD was concerned, however, that the child-care demand formula it uses may not be addressing all relevant aspects of child-care need. As such, the Office of the Secretary of Defense asked the RAND Corporation to assess the DoD formula as a tool for translating information on military families into measures of potential child-care need and to suggest ways that the tool might be improved. To perform this assessment, RAND conducted 21 focus groups on eight installations and from them developed a survey to determine parental preferences and other factors that might affect child-care need. In light of the survey results, the authors assess the validity of the DoD formula in meeting the child-care needs of military families, analyze the factors that influence key child-care outcomes, and address the broader issue of how DoD can refine its goals for military child care. ER -