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Title: Child Care Problems Cut Workforce Ties of 1.1 Million Mothers in 1986, BLS Finds
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Child Care Problems Cut Workforce Ties of 1.1 Million Mothers in 1986, BLS Finds Bureau of National Affairs Pensions and Benefits Daily, December 11, 1991: pg. Cohort(s): NLSY79, Young Women Publisher: Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. Keyword(s): Child Care; Labor Force Participation; Maternal Employment Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. Some 1.1 million young mothers did not seek or hold a job in 1986 because they could not find affordable, quality child care, according to an article in the Bureau of Labor Statistics' October Monthly Labor Review. The group of mothers who could not find child care represented almost 14 percent of the total population of mothers aged 21 to 29 years old in 1986, according to author Peter Cattan. They also accounted for 23 percent of those who were out of the labor force for that year, said Cattan, who is an economist in BLS' Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics. The data were taken from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, an ongoing sample of U.S. residents who were 21 to 29 years old in 1986. Cattan studied a subsample of respondents consisting of mothers who neither worked nor looked for work for at least part of 1986. A second article in the Bulletin focusing on child care arrangements and costs found that the most prevalent type of care is that provided by relatives. More than 40 percent of 23- to 39-year-old mothers relied on a relative to take care of their child while they work, according to authors Jonathan R. Veum and Philip M. Gleason. Veum and Gleason based their analysis on data from the 1988 National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, a sample of 10,466 respondents, as well as the 1983 National Longitudinal Survey of Young Women, which includes information from regular interviews of women who were 14 to 24 years old in 1968. The 1983 survey included responses from nearly 69 percent of the 5,553 respondents in the 1968 sample. |
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Bureau of National Affairs. "Child Care Problems Cut Workforce Ties of 1.1 Million Mothers in 1986, BLS Finds." Bureau of National Affairs Pensions and Benefits Daily, December 11, 1991: pg.. |