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Title: Nontraditional-Hour Child Care in Austin/Travis County

Citation Type: Journal Article

Publication Year: 2023

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Abstract: We estimated whether children’s parents or household heads worked or commuted during nontraditional hours by setting the start time for when the child potentially required care to the value of the “time of departure for work” variable. The end time for when care was potentially needed was calculated by taking the value of the “time of arrival at work” variable and adding the values of the “usual hours worked each week” variable divided by five (assuming work hours were spread over a fiveday workweek) and “travel time to work” (assuming commute time to home was the same as to work) to determine the typical time parent(s) arrived at home after work each day. For example, if a parent typically arrived at work at 9:00 a.m. and worked 40 hours a week, we assumed the parent worked 8 hours a day and departed work at 5:00 p.m.

Url: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/resrep68259.11.pdf

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Authors: Dow, Dawn; Schilder, Diane; Lou, Cary; Mefferd, Eve; Willenborg, Peter

Periodical (Full): Urban Institute

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Pages: 1-10

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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