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Comparing childcare measures in the ATUS and earlier time-diary studies
Mary Dorinda Allard
Economist, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
E-mail: allard.dorinda@bls.gov
Suzanne Bianchi
Chair and Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland.
E-mail: bianchi@umd.edu
Jay Stewart
Research Economist, Office of Employment and Unemployment Statistics, Bureau of Labor Statistics.
E-mail: Stewart.Jay@bls.gov
Vanessa R. Wight
Graduate Student, Department of Sociology, University of Maryland.
E-mail: vwight@socy.umd.edu
The American Time Use Survey’s measures of primary childcare and time with children are comparable with those in earlier U.S. time-diary studies, but the secondary childcare measure is not.
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