"Historical Table. Primary Child Care Arrangements of Preschoolers with Employed Mothers: Selected Years, 1985 to 2005",,,,,,,,,,,
(Numbers in thousands),,,,,,,,,,,
Type of arrangement,,Winter,Fall,Fall,Fall,Fall,Fall,Spring,Spring,Winter,Spring
,,1985,1988,1990,1991,1993,1995 1,1997 1,1999 1,2002 1,2005 1
Children under 5 years ......................................................................,,"8,168","9,483","9,629","9,854","9,937","10,047","11,041","11,397","9,823"," 11,334 "
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PERCENT DISTRIBUTION,,,,,,,,,,,
  .Total......................................................................,,100.0,100.0,100.0,100.0,100.0,100.0,100.0,100.0,100.0,100.0
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Parents......................................................................,,23.8,22.7,22.9,28.7,22.1,22.0,20.8,20.1,20.7,21.6
  .Mother while working......................................................................,,8.1,7.6,6.4,8.7,6.2,5.4,3.2,3.0,3.2,4.3
  .Father......................................................................,,15.7,15.1,16.5,20.0,15.9,16.6,17.7,17.1,17.5,17.2
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Relatives......................................................................,,24.1,21.1,23.1,23.5,25.3,21.4,24.9,27.7,24.8,25.8
  .Grandparent......................................................................,,15.9,13.9,14.3,15.8,16.5,15.9,17.5,19.7,18.6,19.4
  .Sibling and other relative......................................................................,,8.2,7.2,8.8,7.7,8.8,5.5,7.4,8.0,6.2,6.4
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Organized facility......................................................................,,23.1,25.8,27.5,23.1,29.9,25.1,20.4,21.0,24.3,23.8
  .Day care center......................................................................,,14.0,16.6,20.6,15.8,18.3,17.7,15.4,16.7,18.3,18.1
  .Nursery/preschool......................................................................,,9.1,9.2,6.9,7.3,11.6,5.9,4.2,3.9,5.2,5.0
  .Federal Head Start program......................................................................,,(NA),(NA),(NA),(NA),(NA),1.5,0.9,0.4,0.8,0.8
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Other nonrelative care......................................................................,,28.2,28.9,25.1,23.3,21.6,28.4,20.2,18.8,17.2,15.6
  .In child's home......................................................................,,5.9,5.3,5.0,5.4,5.0,4.9,3.8,3.3,3.9,3.6
  .In provider's home......................................................................,,22.3,23.6,20.1,17.9,16.6,23.5,16.3,15.6,13.4,12.0
    ..Family day care......................................................................,,(NA),(NA),(NA),(NA),(NA),15.7,9.8,10.2,8.9,7.4
   ..Other nonrelative......................................................................,,(NA),(NA),(NA),(NA),(NA),7.8,6.5,5.4,4.5,4.6
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Other......................................................................,,0.8,1.6,1.3,1.6,1.1,2.9,13.7,12.4,13.0,13.2
  .Self care......................................................................,,-,0.1,0.1,-,-,0.1,-,-,-,-
  .Other arrangement 2......................................................................,,0.8,1.5,1.2,1.6,1.1,0.6,2.2,2.7,2.6,2.5
  .No regular arrangement 3......................................................................,,(NA),(NA),(NA),(NA),(NA),2.2,11.5,9.7,10.4,10.8
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 - Represents or rounds to zero.       (NA) Not available.,,,,,,,,,,,
  1 Distributions were proportionately redistributed to account for tied responses for the primary arrangement (including responses of no regular arrangement) ,,,,,,,,,,,
to make the percentages total to 100 percent and comparable to earlier years.,,,,,,,,,,,
  2 Includes kindergarten/ grade school and school-based activities for 1985 to 1995.  Only includes kindergarten/grade school from 1997 forward.,,,,,,,,,,,
  3 Not in a child care arrangement on a regular basis (also includes children who were only in kindergarten/ grade school or only in self-care for 1997 and forward).,,,,,,,,,,,
Note: Employed mothers are those with wage and salary employment or other employment arrangements including contingent work and self-employment.  ,,,,,,,,,,,
"Starting with the 1997 data, edits of employment categories were changed to better capture arrangements other than wage and salary employment, as well ",,,,,,,,,,,
"as including the self-employed in the employed total, which may affect comparisons to survey data from earlier years. Percentages shown here ",,,,,,,,,,,
reflect these new edits and supersede previously reported percentages for years 1997 and 1999. The 2002 Winter data omit women who only had ,,,,,,,,,,,
self employed work due to error in the editing procedure. ,,,,,,,,,,,
"Source: Tabulations derived from Current Population Reports, Series P-70-9 table 1; P-70-30 table 1; P-70-36 table 1; P-70-53 table 2;",,,,,,,,,,,
"   P-70-70 table 3;  U.S. Census Bureau, Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP), 1996 Panel Waves 4 and 10,  2001 Panel Wave 4; SIPP 2004 Wave 4.",,,,,,,,,,,
For information on sampling and nonsampling error see http://www.sipp.census.gov/sipp/source.html,,,,,,,,,,,
Internet release date: February 2008.,,,,,,,,,,,