ECEC in Canada
View or download Interim Space Statistics 2024
View or download the French translation of the analysis section, “The state of Canadian early childhood education and care in 2024”: L’état des services d’apprentissage et de garde de jeunes enfants au Canada en 2024
Download the full publication in pdf. Section pdfs are available below.
See the ECEC in Canada archive for previous editions.
February 21, 2024, CRRU released a revised version of ECEC in Canada 2021 (full publication). Any substantive errors in both the main report and the English and French summary reports were revised. Individual chapters are available for download below.
Between 1992 and 2023, the Childcare Resource and Research Unit (CRRU) has developed thirteen versions of ECEC in Canada. This 13-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.
This document, which provides a summary of selected elements of the Canada-Wide Early Learning and Child Care initiative (CWELCC) introduced in 2021, is a supplementary paper to Early childhood education and care in Canada 2021.
ECEC in Canada 2019 full publication [revised 12-Feb-2021]. (Publication sections available for download below.)
ECEC in Canada 2016 full publication (Revised 25/8/2018). Publication sections available for download below.
ECEC in Canada 2016: Key Findings (Revised 31/5/2018, 3pp)
