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administration of the child care subsidy program. For its current Market Rate Study, the Lead Agency did not consult on the development and execution of the Market Rate Study with local resource and referral agencies. The Lead Agency works closely with Georgia's local resource and referral agencies to provide coaching and technical assistance to providers participating in the state’s Quality Rating and Improvement System. vi. Organizations representing child care caregivers, teachers, and directors from all settings and serving all ages: No such organization exists in Georgia to represent only the interests of these roles. That being said, the Lead Agency does meet regularly with stakeholders that represent licensed child care learning center operators and licensed family child care learning home operators that employ those in these roles. vii. Other. Describe: The Lead Agency meets quarterly with child care advocates such as the Georgia Early Education Alliance for Ready Students, Voices for Georgia's Children, Black Child Development Institute of Atlanta individually on a quarterly basis. These regular meetings include updates regarding CCDF activities in addition to other agency activities. No specific feedback was given to inform the Market Rate Study. d. An MRS must be statistically valid and reliable. An MRS can use administrative data, such as child care resource and referral data, if it is representative of the market. Please provide the following information about the market rate survey: i. When was the market rate survey completed? 5/29/2024 ii. What was the time period for collecting the information (e.g., all of the prices in the survey are collected within a three-month time period)? Georgia's Market Rate Study was completed May 29, 2024. The survey process to collect data used for the 2024 Market Rate Study concluded 9/30/2023 and represents rates entered into provider self-service accounts between 1/1/2023 and 9/30/2023. The lead agency collected the bulk of the data through a stabilization reporting period from 5/1/2023 to 7/31/2023 but also included rates entered by providers as early as 1/1/2023 and as late as 9/30/2023. Evaluation of those rates deemed current, added by providers from 1/1/2023 through 9/30/2023, began in October of 2023 and is the referenced by the 2024 Market Rate Study. iii. Describe how it represented the child care market, including what types of providers were included in the survey: Primarily, the Lead Agency used regular reporting required by the child care stabilization program to collect current provider prices for child care through a stabilization reporting period from 5/1/2023 to 7/31/2023. The providers included in the data collection process were licensed child care learning centers and licensed family child care learning homes and represented 89% of all licensed child care providers operating in Georgia. Valid responses were collected from 3,435 licensed child care providers. This total represented 78 percent of all licensed child care providers. In addition to this focused collection, the data collected also included rates entered by providers as early as 1/1/2023 and as late as 9/30/2023 and allowed for providers that did