This indicator shows the percentage of households that take up certain forms of extra-family childcare. It therefore provides information on the socialisation of children outside of their nuclear family.
Main results
Households with a migration background and mixed households are much more likely to use institutional childcare, such as day nurseries, day care centres and extra-school care, than households with no such background. However, households with a migration background are much less likely to turn to grandparents than the other population groups. This is also due to the fact that the grandparents of children with a migration background often live in another country.
Definitions
Institutional childcare: comprises private or public childcare facilities (day nurseries, day care centres, extra-school care, full-time schools). Family day care organised by an association or network is also considered as institutional care.
Non-institutional childcare: refers to extra-family childcare by people outside of an organisation. These may be self-employed providers such as childminders or nannies (formal childcare) but can also be relatives or friends of the parents (informal childcare), e.g. grandparents, other relatives or neighbours.
Methodologies
This indicator shows the share of family households with child(ren) aged under 13 that took up extra-family childcare during a normal week.
Sources
Contact
Federal Statistical Office Section Demography and MigrationEspace de l'Europe 10
CH-2010 Neuchâtel
Switzerland