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Childcare use and mothers' employment
Funded by: Department for Work and Pensions
Date started: 01 January 2003
There are two stages to this project:

  • Review the most promising methodologies that could tell us how mothers employment rates are linked to the supply of formal childcare, discussing their advantages and disadvantages, their data requirements and feasibility in the UK.
  • Investigate recent trends in childcare use amongst families in Great Britain, and provide a thorough comparison of the different household survey and administrative datasets.
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01 December 2004
External publications
Article
Families and Children Strategic Analysis Programme (FACSAP) Childcare use and mothers' employment: a review of British data sources
In this paper we investigate recent trends in childcare use amongst families in Great Britain, and provide a thorough comparison of the different household survey and administrative datasets.
01 July 2004
External publications
Article
Families and Children Strategic Analysis Programme (FACSAP) Reviewing approaches to understanding the link between childcare use and mothers' employment
This report was commissioned through the Department for Work and Pensions' Families and Children Strategic Analysis Programme (FACSAP). It examines methods that could potentially be used to explore the link between mothers' demand for childcare and their employment.
01 July 2004
External publications
Article
Families and Children Strategic Analysis Programme (FACSAP) Reviewing approaches to understanding the link between childcare use and mothers' employment
This report was commissioned through the Department for Work and Pensions' Families and Children Strategic Analysis Programme (FACSAP). It examines methods that could potentially be used to explore the link between mothers' demand for childcare and their employment.

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Families and children
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Mike Brewer
Gillian Paull
Jonathan Shaw