The survey and basic analysis presented in this bulletin characterize existing day care programs and facilities, and provide baseline descriptive data on the utilization of an expressed need for day care by low- and moderate-income families. Information was gathered from operators of day care centers and family day care homes, superintendents of school districts, mothers of children enrolled in the centers whose operators were interviewed, and mothers in families with annual incomes less than $8,000 and a child age 9 or under. The survey was not an evaluation of current day care arrangements. Major findings of the study showed that 55% of all children in day care full-day are cared for in family day care homes; less than 2% of the estimated 450,000 homes are licensed as compared with 90% of day care centers; an estimated 17,500 centers provide full-day care; most directors and teachers in the centers do not have college degrees and few have had special training; the largest age group in centers is the 4-year-old group; the types of day care centers are custodial, educational, and developmental; and estimated 63,000 unfilled day care slots existed; median family income was $7,500; median cost per month in centers runs from $27 to $114; and most working mothers in the population were satisfied with present child care arrangements. An appendix provides the testimony of Mary P. Rowe before the Senate Finance Committee on the needs, hopes, and costs of child care in America. (DB)