TY - JOUR
T1 - The quality of time spent with children in Australian households
AU - Kalenkoski, Charlene M.
AU - Foster, Gigi
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Using data from the 1992 and 1997 Australian Time Use Surveys, we explore patterns in the quality of child care time spent by parents in Australia. Drawing on existing research, we construct and evaluate four alternative ways of defining child care quality. We estimate censored regression models of the time parents spend in high-quality child care, lower-quality child care, and market work according to these different definitions. We find that seemingly small changes in how the quality of time spent caring for children is conceptualized markedly affect the conclusions we draw about the associations of different household and personal characteristics with parents' child care time.
AB - Using data from the 1992 and 1997 Australian Time Use Surveys, we explore patterns in the quality of child care time spent by parents in Australia. Drawing on existing research, we construct and evaluate four alternative ways of defining child care quality. We estimate censored regression models of the time parents spend in high-quality child care, lower-quality child care, and market work according to these different definitions. We find that seemingly small changes in how the quality of time spent caring for children is conceptualized markedly affect the conclusions we draw about the associations of different household and personal characteristics with parents' child care time.
KW - Australia
KW - Child care quality
KW - Time diary data
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=50249178549&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11150-008-9036-3
DO - 10.1007/s11150-008-9036-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:50249178549
VL - 6
SP - 243
EP - 266
JO - Review of Economics of the Household
JF - Review of Economics of the Household
SN - 1569-5239
IS - 3
ER -