Early childhood education and care in Canada: Background information

Between 1992 and 2026, the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) has developed fifteen versions of ECEC in Canada and several accompanying reports. This report series is unique in a number of ways. As such, it has to date reliably served as Canada’s sole source of consistently collected and presented, cross-Canada, longitudinal data and information about regulated child care, kindergarten and parental leave.