Work histories and provision of grandparental childcare among Italian older women

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Journal of Population Sciences

Table 3 Logistic regression models for the probability to perform grandparental childcare under different circumstances, by grandmothers’ work history: having ever worked (no/yes)

	Parents work		Occasional		Give parents a break		Holiday		Sick grandchild		Emergency
	Coef	SE	Coef	SE	Coef	SE	Coef	SE	Coef	SE	Coef	SE
Ever Worked (ref. Never Worked)	0.33***	0.06	0.04	0.06	− 0.09	0.07	0.14	0.08	0.17*	0.07	− 0.04	0.06
Age	0.25**	0.08	0.14	0.08	0.11	0.10	0.20	0.10	0.16	0.10	0.20*	0.08
Age # Age	0.00***	0.00	0.00*	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00	0.00*	0.00
Macro-Area (ref. North-West)
North-East	− 0.03	0.07	0.08	0.07	0.15	0.09	− 0.04	0.10	0.16	0.09	0.17*	0.08
Center	0.07	0.07	− 0.05	0.08	0.03	0.10	− 0.31**	0.11	− 0.06	0.09	0.06	0.08
South and Islands	− 0.56***	0.07	0.02	0.07	− 0.08	0.09	0.01	0.09	− 0.50***	0.09	0.09	0.08
Employment status at interview (ref. employed)
Not employed	0.58***	0.08	0.10	0.08	0.07	0.10	0.09	0.11	0.33**	0.11	− 0.06	0.09
Educational level (ref. no education)
Primary	0.37***	0.10	0.13	0.09	0.14	0.13	0.01	0.12	0.14	0.12	− 0.01	0.10
Lower secondary	0.53***	0.11	0.19	0.10	0.38**	0.14	0.17	0.14	0.24	0.14	0.10	0.11
Upper secondary and higher	0.56***	0.11	0.15	0.10	0.52***	0.14	0.46***	0.14	0.31*	0.14	0.14	0.11
Birth cohort (ref. 1930–1939)
1940–1947	0.07	0.07	− 0.08	0.07	0.11	0.10	0.03	0.10	0.11	0.09	0.15	0.08
1948–1966	0.08	0.09	− 0.13	0.09	− 0.02	0.12	0.05	0.12	0.12	0.11	0.27**	0.10
Constant	− 9.01***	2.43	− 4.07	2.39	− 4.36	3.11	− 8.16*	3.24	− 6.92*	3.12	− 7.45**	2.62

Full models for Fig. 3. Significance level: *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001
Source: Authors’ elaborations on Multipurpose surveys on Families and Social Subjects—ISTAT, 2003, 2009, 2016. N = 7601