Table 13-2-1: The Effect of Facility Status on Demand for Child Care

Variables	Extended Hours	Holiday care	Education
current	future	current	future	current	future
Users of Public Centers (=1)	-0.168 (0.041)	a	0.105 (0.024)	a	-0.035 (0.034)	0.120 (0.052)	a	-0.316 (0.063)	a
User of Private Non-licensed Centers (=1)	0.019 (0.103)	-	-	-0.043 (0.030)	-	-	-0.173 (0.035)	a	0.285 (0.144)

Number of Family Members	0.030 (0.021)	0.022 (0.014)	c	0.029 (0.013)	a	0.036 (0.026)	'-0.029 (0.023)	0.050 (0.024)	a
Residence of Mother's parents (co-residence)	0.124 (0.071)	-0.044 (0.038)	0.329 (0.234)	a	-	-	-0.118 (0.106)	0.550 (0.187)	a
Residence of Mother's parents (same municipality)	0.082 (0.045)	c	0.008 (0.036)	-0.011 (0.031)	-0.044 (0.062)	0.129 (0.072)	a	0.175 (0.073)	a
Residence of Mother's parents (within an hour)	0.054 (0.045)	-0.028 (0.031)	-0.012 (0.029)	-0.015 (0.057)	0.096 (0.057)	b	0.103 (0.061)	b
Time to mother's workplace (minutes)	0.003 (0.001)	b	0.001 (0.001)	b	'-0.0002 (0.002)	-0.004 (0.002)	a	-0.001 (0.002)
Mother's firm size (number of workers)	0.00001 (0.00003)	0.000001 (0.00002)	0.000001 (0.0000001)	-0.000001 (0.00003)	-0.00002 (0.00003)	0.00002 (0.00003)	0.00002 (0.00003)
Employee's status (Full time)	-0.069 (0.143)	0.032 (0.099)	0.375 (0.136)	a	0.410 (0.164)	a	0.023 (0.152)	0.608 (0.127)	a
Employee's status (Part time)	0.074 (0.104)	0.018 (0.078)	0.114 (0.083)	b	0.326 (0.141)	a	0.083 (0.129)	0.660 (0.108)	a
Employee's status (Temporary)	-0.262 (0.230)	0.504 (0.266)	a	0.442 (0.239)	a	0.133 (0.246)	0.675 (0.163)	a	0.692 (0.129)
Monthly working hours	0.0006 (0.0008)	-0.0002 (0.0005)	-0.001 (0.0004)	a	-0.002 (0.001)	b	0.002 (0.001)	a	-0.002 (0.001)
Years of Experience	-0.006 (0.005)	0.005 (0.004)	-0.006 (0.003)	b	'-0.011 (0.006)	b	-0.006 (0.006)	-0.012 (0.006)	b
Mother's education (University graduate)	0.092 (0.113)	-0.041 (0.061)	0.186 (0.151)	c	-0.387 (0.080)	a	0.996 (0.003)	a	-0.199 (0.110)
Mother's education (two year college graduate)	-0.045 (0.129)	-0.096 (0.070)	0.027 (0.081)	-0.339 (0.121)	a	0.997 (0.005)	a	-0.342 (0.117)	a
Mother's education (senior high school)	0.042 (0.118)	-0.069 (0.050)	0.198 (0.152)	b	'-0.312 (0.089)	a	0.993 (0.005)	a	-0.227 (0.091)
Mother's age	0.0006 (0.007)	-0.005 (0.005)	-0.012 (0.005)	a	0.009 (0.008)	-0.012 (0.008)	c	-0.016 (0.008)	a
Father's age	0.004 (0.006)	-0.006 (0.004)	c	0.004 (0.003)	-0.008 (0.007)	0.007 (0.007)	0.009 (0.006)	0.009 (0.006)
Mother's annual income	0.0002 (0.0002)	0.000001 (0.0001)	-0.0001 (0.0001)	0.0003 (0.0002)	b	-0.0002 (0.0002)	0.0003 (0.0002)	0.0003 (0.0002)	c
Father's annual income	0.00002 (0.0001)	0.00001 (0.0001)	0.0001 (0.0001)	'-0.0002 (0.0001)	0.0004 (0.0001)	a	0.00001 (0.0001)
Desirability of current centers (ranks)	-0.007 (0.030)	0.042 (0.016)	a	0.032 (0.015)	a	0.036 (0.033)	0.037 (0.030)	-0.009 (0.035)
Residential Status (own house=1)	0.011 (0.048)	-0.031 (0.029)	-0.030 (0.025)	0.010 (0.058)	-0.083 (0.048)	b	-0.048 (0.050)	-0.046 (0.054)
Own Experience for Child Care Centers	0.024 (0.051)	-0.016 (0.030)	-0.036 (0.024)	-0.072 (0.058)	0.025 (0.056)	-0.046 (0.054)	-0.046 (0.054)

Number of Observations	388	359	388	350	388	388
Likelihood	-174.35	-101.51	-103.85	-181.70	-176.19	-177.41
Pseudo R squared	0.10	0.22	0.26	0.09	0.24	0.19

(Note) The coefficients are marginal effects. Figures in Parentheses are standard errors. a-c describes significant difference at 5%, 10%, and 15% levels.