DETROIT CHILD CARE STUDY

底特律儿童保育研究

• 批准号: 3318205
• 负责人: KAREN O MASON
• 金额: $ 2.43万
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 1985
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1985-06-01 至 1988-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/3318205
• 关键词: child care; child welfare; day care center; employment of women; family planning; fertility; human population study; income; preschool child (1-5); child care; child welfare; day care center; employment of women; family planning; fertility; human population study; income; preschool child (1-5)

The proposed project will identify the criteria women use in selecting alternative forms of care for their preschool-aged children and will elaborate the impact of child care availability and costs women's employment and fertility decisions. Specific aims include understanding how women search for and select child care once they decide they cannot provide all such care themselves; understanding what constitutes "satisfactory child care at reasonable cost" to women in a variety of social and economic circumstances; and understanding whether the local availability and cost of alternative forms of child care influence women's labor force participation or hours worked and their reproductive behavior (both of which have potential health consequences). To study these topics, data will be collected from three main sources: (1) A two-stage, area probability sample of women under the age of 40 with a natural, adopted or step child under age six in their care in the Detroit metropolitan area (these women will be interviewed at length about their child care, employment and fertility experiences, plans and attitudes); (2) data collected by the Michigan State Department of Social Services as part of the licensing and monitoring of child care facilities in the state (included is information on location and type of all licensed child care givers in the Detroit area and data on child care costs from a state-wide April, 1984, survey); and (3) data from the Current Population Survey on unemployment in the Detroit area. The collection of objective information on the availability and costs of child care and the linking of this information to information on individual women is one of the project's most important features because it will allow a direct statistical test of the hypothesis that choice of child care method--and indirectly, employment and fertility decisions--is more heavily determined by child care availability and cost than by individual or household characteristics. Other important features of the project include the collection of direct information on a variety of individual-level variables thought to influence child care, employment and fertility decisions, and the development of theoretical and empirical models that link these variables together.

拟议的项目将确定女性在选择中使用的标准 为他们的学龄前儿童的替代形式的护理形式，将 详细说明育儿可用性的影响和损失妇女的影响 就业和生育决定。 具体目的包括理解 一旦妇女决定无法 自己提供所有这些关心；了解什么构成 对各种女性的“满意育儿” 社会和经济环境；并了解当地人是否 可用性和替代形式的育儿形式影响妇女 劳动力参与或工作时间及其生殖行为 （这两者都有潜在的健康后果）。 为了研究这些主题， 数据将从三个主要来源收集：（1）两个阶段，区域 自然，通过或 在底特律都会区的六岁以下儿童 （这些妇女将对她们的托儿服务进行详细采访， 就业和生育经验，计划和态度）； （2）数据 由密歇根州社会服务部收集 该州托儿机构的许可和监控 （包括有关所有许可托儿的位置和类型的信息 底特律地区的赠送者以及全州范围内的托儿成本数据 1984年4月，调查）； （3）当前人口调查的数据 底特律地区的失业。 客观信息的收集 关于育儿的可用性和成本以及这一联系 有关个别女性的信息的信息是该项目最大的信息之一 重要功能，因为它将允许对 假设选择儿童保育方法 - 并间接地，就业和 生育决策 - 更严重地由育儿可用性决定 和成本比个人或家庭特征。 另一个重要 该项目的功能包括收集有关的直接信息 被认为会影响托儿的各种个人级变量， 就业和生育决定，以及理论和 将这些变量联系在一起的经验模型。