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Estimation of the need for child care in Canada
Author(s) -
Gentleman Jane F.,
Whitmore G.A.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
canadian journal of statistics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.804
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1708-945X
pISSN - 0319-5724
DOI - 10.2307/3315390
Subject(s) - child care , estimation , psychology , medicine , nursing , engineering , systems engineering
Finding adequate child care is a serious problem for many Canadian parents. The purpose of this case study is to estimate the need for child care in Canada, including ihc portion of this need that may be hidden. We utilize the Family History Survey conducted by Statistics Canada (1984) to explore patterns of both met and unmet child‐care needs, based, in the latter case, on varying assumptions about the degree of parents' desire for child care.