Skip to main content

Journal of Population Sciences

Table 2 Probability of parents’ informal childcare arrangements by children’s age. AMEs are reported

From: Informal childcare arrangements: a comparison between Italians and migrants

Migrants’ area of origin (ref. Italy)

On their own

Grandparents

Other relatives

Non-relatives

No need

Households with children aged 0–5

Romania

− 0.002 (0.942)

− 0.533 (0.000)

0.159 (0.000)

0.059 (0.013)

0.276 (0.000)

Albania

0.035 (0.083)

− 0.409 (0.000)

0.188 (0.000)

0.048 (0.076)

0.139 (0.000)

China

0.083 (0.031)

− 0.431 (0.000)

0.112 (0.006)

0.029 (0.398)

0.208 (0.000)

The Indian Subcontinent

0.118 (0.000)

− 0.543 (0.000)

0.122 (0.000)

0.005 (0.832)

0.299 (0.000)

Morocco

0.147 (0.000)

− 0.524 (0.000)

0.195 (0.000)

− 0.017 (0.339)

0.198 (0.000)

Northern Africa

0.076 (0.022)

− 0.633 (0.000)

0.352 (0.000)

− 0.005 (0.864)

0.209 (0.000)

Sub-Saharan Africa

0.100 (0.005)

− 0.655 (0.000)

0.213 (0.000)

0.153 (0.000)

0.189 (0.000)

Latin America

− 0.003 (0.846)

− 0.440 (0.000)

0.184 (0.000)

− 0.028 (0.217)

0.288 (0.000)

N. of households (unweighted)

3474

Households with children aged 6–13

 

Albania

− 0.009 (0.615)

− 0.392 (0.000)

0.279 (0.000)

− 0.023 (0.534)

0.145 (0.012)

China

0.032 (0.402)

− 0.490 (0.000)

0.148 (0.022)

0.041 (0.447)

0.269 (0.001)

The Indian Subcontinent

0.067 (0.171)

− 0.620 (0.000)

0.319 (0.000)

− 0.049 (0.106)

0.284 (0.000)

Morocco

0.170 (0.002)

− 0.516 (0.000)

0.232 (0.000)

− 0.022 (0.457)

0.137 (0.003)

Northern Africa

0.003 (0.912)

− 0.640 (0.000)

0.501 (0.000)

0.008 (0.870)

0.128 (0.051)

Sub-Saharan Africa

0.095 (0.069)

− 0.642 (0.000)

0.229 (0.001)

0.062 (0.023)

0.255 (0.000)

Latin America

− 0.021 (0.000)

− 0.509 (0.000)

0.293 (0.002)

− 0.065 (0.047)

0.303 (0.003)

N. of households (unweighted)

4113

  1. (1) Results from the multinomial logistic regression model. (2) P-values in brackets. (3) Models are weighted and control for household type, parent(s’) employment status, highest educational level in the household, perception of household economic condition, presence of children aged 14-18 in the household, children’s activity, area of residence, and territorial disadvantage
  2. Authors’ elaboration on SCIF (2011–2012) and ADL (2011) data