ERiK-Methodological Report V

1 Preface 2 Introduction 3 Target Populations 3.1 Directors of Day-Care Centres 3.2 Pedagogical Staff of Day-Care Centres 3.3 Family Day-Care Workers 3.4 Youth Welfare Offices 3.5 Providers of Day-Care Centres 3.6 Parents of Children in Day-Care 4 Sampling Frames 4.1 Federal State Lists 4.2 Youth Welfare Offices & Family Day-Care Workers 5 Sampling Designs 5.1 Day-Care Centres: Directors & Pedagogical Staff 5.2 Youth Welfare Offices & Family Day-Care Workers 5.3 Providers 6 ERiK Parent Survey (KiBS) 7 Implementation of the ERiK-Surveys 2024 7.1 Questionnaires 7.2 Field Period 7.3 Providers 7.4 Number of Completed Questionnaires and Response Rates 7.5 Nonresponse Surveys 8 Data Quality of the ERiK-Surveys 2024 8.1 Limited Comparability of the 2020, 2022 and 2024 Surveys 8.2 Weighting 8.3 Informative Value at Federal and State Level 9 Summary 10 Bibliography 11 Appendix