Table 5.
Predicted values by employment status and shift
| Time alone with children | Childcare time | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US | NO | GE | UK | US | NO | GE | UK | |
| Fathers | ||||||||
| Day shift | ||||||||
| Spouse not employed | 0:48 | 0:50 | 0:50 | 0:43 | 0:56 | 0:57 | 0:54 | 0:40 |
| Spouse part-time | 1:10 | 1:19 | 0:52 | 0:58 | 1:14 | 1:02 | 0:47 | 0:50 |
| Spouse full-time | 1:25 | 1:20 | 0:56 | 0:44 | 1:18 | 1:03 | 0:51 | 0:44 |
| Evening shift | ||||||||
| Spouse not employed | 1:41 | -0:02 | 0:34 | 0:16 | 1:11 | 0:45 | 0:36 | 0:23 |
| Spouse part-time | 2:00 | 1:31 | 1:11 | 2:26 | 1:32 | 1:00 | 0:58 | 1:26 |
| Spouse full-time | 1:40 | 0:51 | 0:51 | 1:21 | 1:21 | 0:34 | 0:37 | 0:50 |
| Mothers | ||||||||
| Day shift | ||||||||
| Part-time | 3:10 | 2:40 | 3:15 | 3:09 | 2:57 | 1:32 | 2:01 | 2:26 |
| Full-time | 2:28 | 2:35 | 2:40 | 2:19 | 2:26 | 1:35 | 1:37 | 1:48 |
| Evening shift | ||||||||
| Part-time | 3:22 | 4:20 | 3:11 | 4:13 | 2:43 | 2:25 | 1:51 | 2:00 |
| Full-time | 3:46 | 3:34 | 3:13 | 3:12 | 2:44 | 2:01 | 1:45 | 2:16 |
Note: Predicted means are for respondents with two children and a child under 6, on a weekday. For fathers, working hours are set to 40-45 hours a week, and predicted means are shown by shift and spouses’ employment status. For mothers, means are for spouses working full-time, and predicted means are shown by shift and own employment status. The underline indicates when a relationship was statistically significant in Tables 4 and 6.