As many as 48% of children in prekindergarten (pre-K) miss a month or more of the pre-K year (i.e., 10% or more of the school year), and high levels of absenteeism are associated with adverse academic and social-emotional outcomes in pre-K and in K-12. To date, no studies have examined absenteeism specifically among children receiving child care subsidies, a population of children who may be at greater risk for high absenteeism. Moreover, few studies have explored absenteeism in diverse early care and education (ECE) programs beyond public school pre-K or Head Start programs. This study uses administrative data from Massachusetts to address these gaps by (1) documenting absenteeism rates for children receiving subsidies during the pre-K year in both family child care (FCC) and center-based care (CBC) programs and in kindergarten; and (2) testing whether pre-K absenteeism is associated with kindergarten absenteeism in the full sample and by ECE program type. Results show that children enrolled in subsidized care were absent for an average 8.4% of the school year in pre-K and 5.9% of the school year in kindergarten. Absenteeism rates were lower in pre-K but slightly higher in kindergarten among children enrolled in FCCs, compared to those enrolled in CBCs (Pre-K: 7.2 versus 8.7%; Kindergarten: 6.2 vs 5.8%, respectively). Results from multilevel regression analyses showed that the associations between pre-K and kindergarten absenteeism were positive for children enrolled in both CBC and FCC programs. By documenting the prevalence of absenteeism among a sample of children receiving child care subsidies in diverse ECE programs, this study provides implications for ECE and child care subsidy research, policy, and practice.

学前班 (pre-K) 中多达 48% 的儿童错过学前学年一个月或更长时间（即学年的 10% 或更多），高水平的旷课与不利的学业和社交相关- 学前班和 K-12 的情绪结果。迄今为止，还没有研究专门调查接受托儿补贴的儿童的缺勤率，这些儿童缺勤率较高的风险可能更高。此外，很少有研究探讨公立学校学前班或启蒙计划以外的各种早期护理和教育 (ECE) 计划中的缺勤情况。本研究使用马萨诸塞州的行政数据来解决这些差距，方法是：(1) 记录在家庭儿童保育 (FCC) 和以中心为基础的保育 (CBC) 计划和幼儿园中接受学前教育补贴的儿童的缺勤率；(2) 在全样本和 ECE 项目类型中检验学前班旷课是否与幼儿园旷课有关。结果显示，参加补贴看护的儿童在学前班平均缺勤时间为 8.4%，在幼儿园缺勤时间为 5.9%。与在 CBC 注册的儿童相比，在 FCC 注册的儿童在学前班的旷课率较低，但在幼儿园略高（学前班：7.2% 对 8.7%；幼儿园：6.2% 对 5.8%）。多层次回归分析的结果表明，对于参加 CBC 和 FCC 计划的儿童，学前班和幼儿园旷课之间的关联是积极的。通过记录在不同的 ECE 计划中接受托儿补贴的儿童样本中的缺勤率，