HIFLD OPEN Child Care Centers

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) United States Department of Energy. Office of Science. Oak Ridge National Laboratory; United States Department of Homeland Security

Version:  View help for Version V1

Name File Type Size Last Modified
child-care-centers-geojson.zip application/zip 9.8 MB 10/16/2025 12:37:PM
child-care-centers-shapefile.zip application/zip 21.2 MB 10/16/2025 12:20:PM
metadata.xml application/xml 35.3 KB 10/16/2025 12:37:PM

Project Citation: 

United States Department of Energy. Office of Science. Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and United States Department of Homeland Security. HIFLD OPEN Child Care Centers. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-10-16. https://doi.org/10.3886/E238943V1

Project Description

Project Title:  View help for Project Title HIFLD OPEN Child Care Centers
Summary:  View help for Summary This feature class/shapefile contains locations of child day care centers for the 50 states of the USA, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. The dataset only includes center based child day care locations (including those located at schools and religious institutes) and does not include group, home, and family based child day cares. The SOURCEDATE is an indicator of when the source data was last acquired or was publicly available. All the data was acquired from respective states departments or their open source websites and only contains data provided by these sources. Information on the source of data for each state is available in the SOURCE field of the feature class/shapefile. The TYPE attribute is a common categorization of child day care centers for all states which categorizes every child day care into Center Based, School Based, Head Start, or Religious Facility solely based on the type of facility where the child day care center is geographically located. This update has 2608 fewer records than the previous version based on source data.
Original Distribution URL:  View help for Original Distribution URL https://hifld-geoplatform.hub.arcgis.com/

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms HIFLD Open; GIS; Daycare; Child Care Centers; Preschool Care
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage United States of America
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 6/24/2021 – 3/1/2022
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) geographic information system (GIS) data
Collection Notes:  View help for Collection Notes Archived from the HIFLD Open GIS data repository, which was deactivated on August 26, 2025.


Related Publications

Download this project

Published Versions

V1 [2025-10-16]

Export Metadata

Dublin Core

DDI 2.5

Report a Problem

Found a serious problem with the data, such as disclosure risk or copyrighted content? Let us know.

This material is distributed exactly as received from the data depositor. ICPSR has not reviewed, checked, or processed this material. For additional information about the study, please contact the investigator(s) directly. If you have questions about the accessibility of materials distributed by ICPSR or require further assistance, please visit ICPSR's Accessibility Center.