Who should pay for costs of care for under school age child

carecost

Source

General Social Survey https://gss.norc.org

Details

Question Who do you think should primarily cover the costs of childcare for children under school age?

Values

• [1] the family

• [2] the government/public funds

• [3] the employers

• [NA(d)] don't know [NA(i)] iap [NA(j)] I don't have a job [NA(m)] dk, na, iap [NA(n)] no answer [NA(p)] not imputable [NA(r)] refused [NA(s)] skipped on web [NA(u)] uncodeable [NA(x)] not available in this release [NA(y)] not available in this year [NA(z)] see codebook

Question Years and Ballots

ballots	years
A/-	2022
A/B	2012

Overview

For further details see the GSS Data Explorer page for carecost.

Counts by year:

year	iap	the family	the government/public funds	the employers	don't know	no answer	skipped on web	Total
2012	672	846	167	73	208	8	-	1974
2022	2384	520	281	145	200	5	9	3544
Total	3056	1366	448	218	408	13	9	5518

See also

Other ISSP Family & Gender Roles: careprov, eldersup, eldhelp, famwkbst, famwklst, kidsocst, paidlv, paidlvdv, paidlvpy

Other Spending: careprov