In addition to providing nurturing early learning experiences for young children, child care also keeps our state’s economy running—a fact that became clearer than ever during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many child care settings closed in response to stay-at-home orders. Data from the U.S. Census Bureau collected in late summer 2022 indicated that more than one-fourth of all Colorado households with children under 5 reported that their child care arrangement was disrupted at some point in the past four weeks because of the COVID-19 pandemic. To learn more about early childhood data collected during the pandemic by the Census Household Pulse Survey, please visit the KIDS COUNT Data Center.
