National Child Care Survey

Detailed information for 1988

This survey provides valid comprehensive data on Canadian economic families' child care needs, use patterns and parental preferences and concerns.

Data release - March 29, 1993

• Description
• Data sources and methodology

Description

This survey provides valid comprehensive data on Canadian economic families' child care needs, use patterns and parental preferences and concerns. As well, relationships among family, work and child care variables are examined. The survey collects data from a designated adult from randomly selected households concerning all children in the family.

Subjects

• Child care
• Child development and behaviour
• Children and youth

Data sources and methodology

Sampling

This is a sample survey with a cross-sectional design.

Sample from active and inactive Labour Force Survey (LFS) (SDDS ID 3701) sample; telephone or personal interview.

Estimation

Province/age/sex adjustment using census projections.

Disclosure control

Statistics Canada is prohibited by law from releasing any information it collects that could identify any person, business, or organization, unless consent has been given by the respondent or as permitted by the Statistics Act. Various confidentiality rules are applied to all data that are released or published to prevent the publication or disclosure of any information deemed confidential. If necessary, data are suppressed to prevent direct or residual disclosure of identifiable data.

In order to prevent any data disclosure, confidentiality analysis is done using the Statistics Canada Generalized Disclosure Control System (G-Confid). G-Confid is used for primary suppression (direct disclosure) as well as for secondary suppression (residual disclosure). Direct disclosure occurs when the value in a tabulation cell is composed of or dominated by few enterprises while residual disclosure occurs when confidential information can be derived indirectly by piecing together information from different sources or data series.