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Survey of Child-Care Needs of Lower-Paid Personnel, 1980

Harvard Dataverse (Africa Rice Center, Bioversity International, CCAFS, CIAT, IFPRI, IRRI and WorldFish)

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Title Survey of Child-Care Needs of Lower-Paid Personnel, 1980
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Y3HTCI
 
Creator Harvard-Radcliffe Child Care Council
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The purpose of this study was to identify unmet needs for child care among lower-paid personnel employed at Harvard University. This identification was aimed both at estimating the numbers of lower-paid staff currently and prospectively in need of better child care and at determining causes of inadequate current care.


A brief questionnaire and cover letter was mailed to approximately 5,000 Harvard employees whose annual income was less than $15,000. Of the 371 respondents, 286 were female, 137 of whom were mothers of at least one child.

The one-page questionnaire was designed to assess basic aspects of the employee's job, basic demographic facts, financial situation, current child-care arrangements, subjective evaluations of child-care arrangements, and preferences for child-care arrangements.

The Murray Archive holds additional analogue materials for this study (completed questionnaires). If you would like to access this material, please apply to use the data.
 
Subject Social Sciences
 
Type survey