Description & Citation--Study No. 22580

Bibliographic Description

Study No.:

22580

Title:

Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES): 2003 Cohort [United States]

Principal Investigator(s):

United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation

Funding:

United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation (Contract order number 03Y003118101D, Head Start Performance Measures Center: FACES and Quality Research Centers Consortium)

Bibliographic Citation:

United States Department of Health and Human Services. Administration for Children and Families. Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation. Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES): 2003 Cohort [United States] [Computer file]. ICPSR22580-v5. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2010-10-27. doi:10.3886/ICPSR22580.v5

Series:

Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) Series

Scope of Study

Summary:

The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey (FACES) is an ongoing national longitudinal study of the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development of Head Start children. It examines the characteristics, well-being, and accomplishments of families, the observed quality of Head Start classrooms, and the characteristics and opinions of Head Start teachers and other program staff. FACES was designed to address four central questions related to program performance objectives:

  1. Does Head Start enhance children's development and school readiness?
  2. Does Head Start strengthen families as the primary nurturers of their children?
  3. Does head Start provide children with high quality educational, health, and nutritional services?
  4. How is classroom quality related to child outcomes?

The FACES 2003 Cohort involved a nationally representative sample of children and families in Head Start programs in the United States who were studied at entry into the program in the fall of 2003, assessed at the completion of their program experience, and followed up at the end of their kindergarten year. The FACES 2003 battery has five main components: the child assessment, parent interview, teacher and staff interviews, classroom observations and teacher-child reports.

  1. The child assessments included the major components of school readiness, and were collected through direct child assessments and rating scales completed by parents and teachers. Some of the direct child assessments included the Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test Third Edition-Revised (PPVT-III), Woodcock-Johnson Psycho-Educational Battery-Revised, McCarthy Scales of Children's Abilities, story and print concepts, social awareness, color names and one-to-one counting and assessor ratings.

  2. The parent interview was designed to provide Head Start with a comprehensive understanding of the families that they serve, including the characteristics of households and household members, levels and types of participation in the program and in other community services, involvement with their children, and an understanding of their children's development. In addition to this, parents were asked to rate each child on a set of behaviors that assessed the child's basic social skills and behavior problems.

  3. The teacher and staff interview was designed to provide information on Head Start personnel experience, education, and training as well as knowledge and beliefs about child development, and educational activities with children and parents.

  4. The classroom observations were designed to measure peer interactions, friendships of children, and the extent to which Head Start programs employed skilled teachers and provided developmentally appropriate environments and curricula for their children. Some of the assessments used included the Assessment Profile, Early Childhood Environment Rating Scale-Revised (ECERS-R), classroom observation of teacher-directed activities, and the Arnett Caregiver Interaction Scale.

  5. The teacher-child report was designed to capture important sources of information about children's learning and behavior through the use of the Teacher-Child Report (TCR), social skills ratings, the Behavior Problems scale and the Preschool Learning Behavior Scale (PLBS).

Subject Terms:

child care, child development, child health, child nutrition, child rearing, early childhood education, Head Start, parent child relationship, parenting skills, school readiness

Geographic Coverage:

United States

Time Period:
  • 2003--2006  (Fall 2003 through Spring 2006)

Universe:

The programs participating in the FACES 2003 Cohort were randomly selected from 1,669 Head Start programs that were constructed from the 2002-2003 Program Information Report (PIR).

Data Types:

survey data and observational data/ratings

Data Collection Notes:

  • Project Officer

    The Head Start Family and Child Experiences Survey would like to acknowledge Maria Woolverton's role as the ACF Project Officer.

  • Principal Investigator

    Nicholas Zill, Ph.D. (Westat) was the Principal Investigator for this project.

  • Acknowledgment

    Special collaborators on data collection for the FACES 2003 dataset include subcontractors Xtria and CDM Group, Inc.).

  • Additional Resources

    Reports based on this data collection are available at the Administration for Children and Families Web site.

To conform with ICPSR filenaming conventions, data and documentation files have been assigned new file names that differ from those assigned by the original data producer, Westat, Inc. A crosswalk document (linking old data file names to new ones) may be found within each of the PDF codebooks and the User Guide.

Methodology

Sample:

A representative sample of 2,400 children who were 3 and 4 years old and their parents in a stratified national probability sample of 63 Head Start programs.

Weight:

The FACES 2003 data include both full sample weights and replicate weights. There are cross-sectional weights for the fall 2003 child-level and class-level data files and cross-sectional weights for the spring 2004 child-level data files. Additionally, there are longitudinal weights for the fall 2003 through spring 2004 child-level data and for the fall 2003 through spring 2005/spring 2006 child-level data. There are cross-sectional child-level weights for the spring 2005/spring 2006 data and a single set of jackknife factors for use with all of the weights.

Consult the Data User's Guide for a more in-depth explanation of the weights, the weighting procedure, and the specific formulas used for each of the weights.

Mode of Data Collection:

computer-assisted self interview (CASI), coded on-site observation, face-to-face interview, self-enumerated questionnaire

Extent of Processing:

All archived data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. The archive also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, the archive performed the following processing steps for this data collection:

  • Performed consistency checks.
  • Standardized missing values.
  • Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.

Access and Availability

Note:

Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest.

Original ICPSR Release:

2008-07-09

Restrictions:

This data collection may not be used for any purpose other than statistical reporting and analysis. Use of these data to learn the identity of any person or establishment is prohibited. To protect respondent privacy, the FACES 2003 Cohort data are restricted from general dissemination. Access to parts of this study requires a signed User Agreement. To obtain the file(s), researchers must agree to the terms and conditions of the Restricted Data Use Agreement, which is included with every download and can also be obtained separately on the Browse Documentation page.

Version History:

  • 2010-12-16 The Restricted Data Use Agreement has been updated.

  • 2010-10-27 Updated the FACES Instrument Matrix to include the 2006 cohort.

  • 2010-07-14 A Code Book cover was updated.

  • 2010-07-12 The FACES Instrument Matrix and public PDF versions of the Codebooks have been added.

  • 2010-02-05 The Restricted Data Use Agreement was updated.

  • 2009-04-01 User Guide bookmarks were updated.

  • 2009-02-10 The description of Teacher Beliefs Scale has been updated in the User Guide.

  • 2008-09-10 The Restricted Data Use Agreement has been added.

Dataset(s):
  • DS1: Fall 2003 Head Start English and Spanish Child Assessment Data
  • DS2: Fall 2003 Head Start Center Director Interview Data
  • DS3: Fall 2003 Head Start Education Coordinator Interview Data
  • DS4: Fall 2003 Head Start Classroom Observation Data
  • DS5: Fall 2003 Head Start Parent Interview Data
  • DS6: Fall 2003 Head Start Teacher's Child Report Data
  • DS7: Fall 2003 Head Start Teacher Interview Data
  • DS8: Spring 2004 Head Start English and Spanish Child Assessment Data
  • DS9: Spring 2004 Head Start Classroom Observation Data
  • DS10: Spring 2004 Head Start Parent Interview Data
  • DS11: Spring 2004 Head Start Teacher's Child Report Data
  • DS12: Spring 2004 Head Start Teacher Interview Data
  • DS13: Spring 2005 Head Start English and Spanish Child Assessment Data
  • DS14: Spring 2005 Head Start Parent Interview Data
  • DS15: Spring 2005 Head Start Teacher's Child Report Data
  • DS16: Spring 2005 Head Start Teacher Interview Data
  • DS17: Spring 2005 Spring 2006 Kindergarten English and Spanish Child Assessment Data
  • DS18: Spring 2005 Spring 2006 Kindergarten Parent Interview Data
  • DS19: Spring 2005 Spring 2006 Kindergarten Teacher's Child Report Data
  • DS20: Spring 2005 Spring 2006 Kindergarten Teacher Interview Data
  • DS21: Fall 2003 through Spring 2006 Kindergarten Longitudinal Data
  • DS22: Fall 2003 Cross Sectional Child Weights
  • DS23: Fall 2003 Cross Sectional Classroom Weights
  • DS24: Spring 2004 Cross Sectional Child Weights
  • DS25: Spring 2005 Spring 2006 Cross Sectional Child Weights
  • DS26: Fall 2003 through Spring 2004 Longitudinal Child Weights
  • DS27: Fall 2003 through Spring 2006 Longitudinal Child Weights
  • DS28: FACES 2003 JKN Factors