Monthly counts of licensed child care facilities and spaces in British Columbia, provided by the provincial government. The data covers providers participating in Ministry of Education and Child Care programs, such as the Child Care Operating Funding (CCOF) Program or the $10 a Day ChildCareBC Program. A data dictionary and examples for working with the data are available.
Use Cases
- Analyze trends in child care capacity based on monthly facility counts
- Evaluate participation rates in government funding programs based on opt-in status
- Monitor the availability of licensed child care spaces over time
Strengths
- Monthly granularity for tracking changes over time
- Includes providers from two specific government programs (CCOF and ChildCareBC)
- Documentation includes a data dictionary and examples for working with the data
Limitations
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
- Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
- Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the province of British Columbia
Provenance
- Source
- Government of British Columbia
- Collection Method
- Likely collected from licensed child care providers opting into government programs.
- Freshness
- Last updated 2026-04-17 15:30:20.188815
- Geography
- British Columbia, Canada