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The steady and dramatic increase in the proportion of mothers with young children entering the paid labor force represents one of the most significant social transformations to have taken place in Canada and in the United States over the past 30 years. The Canadian National Child Care Study (CNCCS), with over 24,000 families interviewed, is one of the largest national surveys of child care and labor force issues undertaken to date internationally. This article discusses the CNCCS both as a case study of the forces impinging on the undertaking of a major national survey and as a unique source of information on the interaction of child, family, and societal variables within the complex ecology of child care.
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Pence, A.R. Time and tide: An overview of the canadian national child care survey. Child Youth Care Forum 26, 223–245 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02589417
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