Cost Analysis in Day Care and Head Start.

Bedger, Jean E.

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Publication Date: 1974

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Cost Analysis in Day Care and Head Start

Bedger, Jean E.

Child Welfare, 53, 8, 514-523, Oct 74

Development of precise and usable information on the financial operations of day care centers has been hampered by a lack of definition of types of programs and units of service, and confusion in comparing prices and costs. This article reports on the testing of a system of financial reporting and cost analysis, applied to 29 day care centers and Head Start programs. (Author/CS)

Descriptors: Cost Indexes, Data Analysis, Day Care, Educational Finance, Enrollment, Expenditure per Student, Operating Expenses, Program Costs, Salary Wage Differentials

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