Access to formal childcare among families of newly arrived migrants from non-EU countries in France

Genus

Journal of Population Sciences

Table 2 Children enrolled in formal childcare (%), 0–2 year-old children of recently arrived migrants

	%	P value	Cramér’s V
Family typology
Immigrant couples	14.4	< 0.001	0.127
Mixed couples	21.8
Single mothers	28.1
Family typology, detail
Father first	8.9	< 0.001	0.189
Mother first	24.6
Joint couple	12.0
Met at destination	23.2
Mixed, immigrant mother	14.9
Mixed, native mother	25.8
Single mothers	28.1
Region of origin
Algeria	10.7	< 0.001	0.244
Morocco/Tunisia	8.3
Sahel Africa	18.5
Central Africa	31.7
Other Africa	20.0
Asia	9.0
Other	31.9
Mother’s proficiency in French
High	26.1	< 0.001	0.229
Mid	14.5
Low	5.3
Mother’s highest degree
Less than secondary	13	< 0.001	0.132
Secondary	24.8
Tertiary	22.8
Working parents
Yes	46.1	< 0.001	0.394
No	9.5
Household income
Q1	13.6	< 0.001	0.196
Q2	26.7
Q3/Q5	38.4
Remote neighbourhood
Yes	12.6	0.076	0.052
No	18.9
Timing of the move (ref. May 2018)
Later move	16.1	0.180	0.071
Recent move	16.8
Ancient move	21.1
Total	18.1

Source: Elipa 2 survey, wave 1 (authors’ estimation). P values refer to the Chi-square test. Cramer’s V coefficient as an indicator of the strength of association between two categorical variables