{
  "checked": "2026-09-05",
  "care_source": "https://info.childcareaware.org/price-and-supply-2025",
  "care_method_source": "https://www.childcareaware.org/ccaoas-methodology-2026/",
  "tuition_source": "https://research.collegeboard.org/trends/college-pricing/highlights",
  "tuition_and_required_fees": 11950,
  "tuition_period": "2025–26",
  "care_period": "2025 label; collection covers December 2025 through March 2026",
  "care_population": "Infant care in licensed centers; three alternative national averaging methods",
  "rows": [
    {
      "method": "Equal-state average",
      "infant_center_price": 15636,
      "percent_above_tuition": 30.845188284518834
    },
    {
      "method": "Space-weighted average",
      "infant_center_price": 15015,
      "percent_above_tuition": 25.64853556485356
    },
    {
      "method": "Program-weighted average",
      "infant_center_price": 15728,
      "percent_above_tuition": 31.615062761506273
    }
  ],
  "calculation": "100 * (infant_center_price / tuition_and_required_fees - 1)",
  "finding": "PF01 30.8% arithmetic confirmed for equal-state method; magnitude depends on method. Comparison is price scale, not same service or same household population.",
  "limits": [
    "Tuition is published public four-year in-state tuition and fees, before student aid, excluding living costs.",
    "Childcare prices are not necessarily household payments after subsidies.",
    "Do not replace infant-center price with the $13,184 overall mixed-setting and age average.",
    "NCES 1980–2023 tuition growth remains unchecked; two direct web fetches timed out."
  ]
}