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 | MEDIA FACT SHEET | |
| June 27, 2007 | Embargoed 9.30 am (AEST) | 70/2007 |
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More than a quarter of Australians provide child care: Census |
- A new question on child care in the 2006 Census has resulted in figures showing that 27% of people aged 15+ provided some kind of child care in the two weeks before the Census.
- Twenty-one percent of women and 18% of men provided cared for their own children only, while 9% of women and 5% of men cared only for other people's children.
- Four-fifths (80%) of child care provided by parents for their own children was provided by people aged 30–49 years. Half (50%) of child care provided to other people's children was by people aged 50-69 years. Many of these were likely to be the children's grandparents.
- This is the first time ABS has included a question on unpaid child care in the Census. The results will assist in understanding the contribution of unpaid work to Australian society.
- Comprehensive information about child care and other aspects of unpaid work will be available from the ABS Time Use Survey. These results will be released in late 2007.
NB: The figures in this fact sheet exclude overseas visitors. Where an answer to a question has not been provided (i.e. not stated) these occurrences form a separate category in the data and therefore some percentages do not total to 100%.
Source: ABS 2006 Census.
Table 1. 2006 Census: Unpaid child care, states and territories |
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| NSW | VIC | Qld | SA | WA | TAS | NT | ACT | Aust. | |
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
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| Did not provide child care | 63.5 | 64.1 | 62.5 | 64.7 | 62.4 | 63.8 | 56.6 | 65.4 | 63.4 | |
| Cared for own child/children | 19.2 | 19.1 | 20.1 | 18.6 | 19.8 | 19.2 | 19.4 | 19.5 | 19.4 | |
| Cared for other child/children | 6.9 | 6.8 | 6.9 | 8.0 | 7.0 | 7.6 | 8.2 | 7.3 | 7.0 | |
| Cared for own child/children and other child/children | 0.9 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.2 | 2.3 | 1.2 | 1.0 | |
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Table 2. 2006 Census: Unpaid child care, capital cities(a) |
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| Sydney | Melbourne | Brisbane | Adelaide | Perth | Hobart | Darwin | Canberra | |
| % | % | % | % | % | % | % | % | |
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| Did not provide child care | 63.6 | 64.5 | 62.7 | 65.3 | 63.1 | 63.8 | 59.1 | 65.4 | |
| Cared for own child/children | 19.0 | 18.9 | 20.3 | 18.1 | 19.5 | 18.7 | 19.7 | 19.5 | |
| Cared for other child/children | 6.5 | 6.6 | 7.3 | 8.0 | 7.1 | 7.9 | 6.6 | 7.3 | |
| Cared for own child/children and other child/children | 0.8 | 0.9 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.4 | 1.2 | |
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| (a) Capital City Statistical Division. |
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