- Hilary Shager, Yonah Drazen, and Emma Flanagan
- June 2025
- Link to WisconSays-Child-Care-Questions-Report-06062025 (PDF)
After working on a series of studies of the Child Care Counts program that surveyed child care providers throughout the state, researchers from the Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP) sought additional input from a broader sample of Wisconsin residents regarding their experiences with child care. IRP worked with the University of Wisconsin Survey Center (UWSC) to leverage their “WisconSays” initiative—a survey fielded as an online, probability-based panel designed to be representative of the Wisconsin household population. With feedback from DCF, researchers designed a series of questions about child care, exploring Wisconsinites’ opinions about access to child care and state funding for child care. For respondents currently using child care, questions included assessments of challenges accessing and paying for child care, as well as employment and well-being challenges experienced because of issues with child care.
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