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Correlational findings

Study Schober & Schmitt (2017): study DE 2007

Public
Parents, partnered and single, Germany, 2007 - 2012
Survey name
DE-SOEP
Sample
Respondents
N = 2378
Non Response
Assessment
Interview: face-to-face

Correlate

Authors's Label
Use of day care
Our Classification
Distribution
No day-care used:                                  69.78%
Day-care used half-day:                       10.86%
Day-care used more than half-day: 19.36%
Operationalization
1: Day care used
    a: Usage of half-day care (<5 hours)
    b: Usage of more than half-day care
0: No day-care used (Reference)

Observed Relation with Happiness

Happiness Measure Statistics Elaboration / Remarks O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-cd b-fix = -.04 ns Half-day care           (vs no day care used) O-SLW-c-sq-n-11-cd b-fix = +.22 ns More than half-day care (vs no day care used)

b-fix controlled for:
- Characteristics of respondents
  - mother in education
  - mother unemployed
  - childcare support from relatives
  - childcare and housework hours of fathers
  - fathers’ employment status
  - ln of household income
  - maternal health
  - marital status
  - age of youngest child
  - number of children
- Characteristics of country
  - county unemployment rate
  - county expenditure per capita
  - dummy of missing county expenditure
  - year dummies and dummies for county border
    reform
  - moving between counties