Table 4.

Children's use of child care at 18 months' follow up according to whether children were provided with high quality flexible day care (intervention). Values are numbers (percentages) unless stated otherwise

Type of day care	Intervention group (n=62)	Control group (n=75)
Centre based care:	57 (92)	47 (63)
Community nursery	1 (2)	4 (5)
Private nursery	4 (6)	7 (9)
Local authority nursery	43 (69)	13 (17)
Nursery unit attached to local authority school	9 (15)	23 (31)
By family	9 (15)	10 (13)
By friends or relatives	4 (6)	3 (4)
By childminder	6 (10)	15 (20)