America After 3PM is a nationally representative survey of randomly selected adults who live in the U.S. and are the parent or guardian of a school-age child who lives in their household.

The survey was conducted using a blend of national consumer panels, with the goal of completing at least 200 interviews in every state and Washington, D.C. In states where this goal could not be reached using online panels, supplementary telephone interviews were conducted in both English and Spanish.

Data included in this report were collected between January 27, 2020 and March 17, 2020. A total of 31,055 households were surveyed. Respondents answered questions regarding ways in which their child or children are cared for in the hours after school, participation in organized activities, participation in summer experiences, and demographics.

A subset of households, 14,391 respondents, answered a series of follow up questions. These included questions about afterschool experiences or barriers to participation in afterschool, and perceptions of afterschool programs. On average, the online survey took 13 minutes to complete, landline telephone surveys took 20 minutes, and mobile telephone surveys took 23 minutes. Data from interviews are weighted on race and income within state and by state population. The overall margin of error for child-level and household-level data is +/- < 1 percent.

Projections for child-level data represent the 57.4 million children and youth in the United States based on numbers from the U.S. Census Bureau’s October 2018 Current Population Survey. Also included in this report are findings from a nationally representative online survey fielded October 12-29, 2020, of 1,202 parents of school-aged children, conducted by Edge Research.