Table 2.

Employment status of parents

Characteristics	n	%	n	%
Employment at diagnosis	Father		Mother
Government, SOE, or public sector	35	22.0	32	20.1
Private sector or self-employed	109	68.6	73	45.9
Agriculture	11	6.9	16	10.1
Unemployed or doing housework	4	2.5	38	23.9
Change of employment status (conditional on employed at diagnosis)	Father		Mother
No change	47	29.9	18	14.8
Completely stop working	13	8.3	8	6.6
Extended leave	97	61.7	96	78.7
Average length of absence, months (mean, SD)	14.4	11.1	18.1	10.8

SOE, state-owned enterprise.