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State and local governments ........................................................ 100.0 17.0 5.3 10.1 1.6 83.0

Private Industry ............................................................................ 100.0 13.3 8.5 3.6 1.2 86.7

Goods producing .................................................................. 100.0 14.7 10.4 1.5 2.8 85.3

Service producing ................................................................. 100.0 12.8 7.9 4.3 0.7 87.2

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1-99 workers ............................................................................. 100.0 4.5 2.6 1.5 0.4 95.5

100-499 workers ....................................................................... 100.0 14.6 8.5 5.2 1.0 85.4

500-999 workers ....................................................................... 100.0 23.9 15.8 6.0 2.1 76.1

1,000-4,999 workers ................................................................. 100.0 32.3 20.2 8.9 3.3 67.7

5,000 workers or more .............................................................. 100.0 45.8 20.1 19.5 6.2 54.2

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Northeast .................................................................................. 100.0 16.0 9.3 5.9 0.8 84.0

South ........................................................................................ 100.0 10.3 6.4 3.5 0.5 89.7

Midwest .................................................................................... 100.0 13.5 7.2 4.0 2.2 86.5

West ......................................................................................... 100.0 17.7 10.5 5.2 2.0 82.3

Percent of establishments

All industries ..................................................................................... 100.0 3.0 1.7 1.1 0.1 97.0

State and local governments ........................................................ 100.0 13.5 6.7 5.8 1.0 86.5

Private Industry ............................................................................ 100.0 2.7 1.6 1.0 0.1 97.3

Goods producing .................................................................. 100.0 1.9 1.4 0.4 0.1 98.1

Service producing ................................................................. 100.0 2.9 1.6 1.1 0.1 97.1

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1-99 workers ............................................................................. 100.0 2.5 1.4 1.0 0.1 97.5

100-499 workers ....................................................................... 100.0 14.0 7.6 5.7 0.7 86.0

500-999 workers ....................................................................... 100.0 25.5 18.5 4.9 2.1 74.5

1,000-4,999 workers ................................................................. 100.0 33.9 24.4 6.6 2.9 66.1

5,000 workers or more .............................................................. 100.0 44.4 20.0 14.3 10.1 55.6

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Northeast .................................................................................. 100.0 2.5 1.7 0.7 0.2 97.5

South ........................................................................................ 100.0 2.8 1.7 1.2 4 ( ) 97.2

Midwest .................................................................................... 100.0 2.2 0.9 1.2 0.1 97.8

West ......................................................................................... 100.0 4.6 2.8 1.4 0.4 95.4

1 Incidence refers to the percent of workers eligible for childcare resource and referral services and the percent of

establishments that provide this service. 2 "Other" refers to establishments that provide childcare resource and referral services both internally and by contractors.

For example, an establishment provides these services internally to nonmanagement workers and contracts the services for

management workers. 3 The regional breakout is as follows: Northeast: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New

York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, and Vermont. South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia,

Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West

Virginia. Midwest: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota,

and Wisconsin. and the West: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon,

Utah, Washington, and Wyoming. 4 Less than 0.05 percent.

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Employer assistance for childcare1 ................ 1 - 4 5 8 7 8 10

Employer-provided funds ................... - - - - - -46

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Offsite childcare .................................. - - - - - -11

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1 Employees may have access to more than one type of assistance for childcare. 2 Less than 0.5 percent. 3 In 1995, BLS removed premium conversion plans from the category of reimbursement accounts.

NOTE: Data are from the BLS Employee Benefits Survey, and pertain to establishments with employment of less than 100 workers. Dashes indicate that data were not

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NOTE: Data are from the BLS Employee Benefits Survey. Data for 1987 represent

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TABLE 4. Incidence of eligibility for childcare and reimbursement accounts among

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Employer assistance

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Employer provided funds ... - - - 3 2

Onsite childcare .................. - - - 5 3

Offsite childcare .................. - - - 2 3

Reimbursement accounts ....... 5 31 50 64 422

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