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May 2007

Comparing childcare measures in the ATUS and earlier time-diary studies

Mary Dorinda Allard, Suzanne Bianchi, Jay C. Stewart, Vanessa R. Wight

The American Time Use Survey's measures of primary childcare and time with children are comparable with those in earlier U.S. time-diary studies, but the secondary childcare measure is not.

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