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Data from "ECEC 2004" published by the Childcare Resource and Research
Unit at the University of Toronto
http://www.childcarecanada.org/ECEC2004/index.html#toc
QUEBEC
- Regulated daycare expenditure: $1.56 billion.
- "Spaces" are available for only 29.9% of kids age 0-12. (Quebec
would have to triple expenses to $4.5 billion to cover 90% of children
and make daycare almost universal). NOTE: 40% of Quebec daycares reported
vacancies (from Statistics Canada "You Bet I Care!" report).
- Enrollment is calculated in "spaces": Funding is for "spaces" not
for "children". Enrollment figures are not provided, nor is
there a break down of full-time and part-time usage. This means that
although a "space" is funded for "full-time" or maximum use, at any
given time many spaces are empty.
- Costs per "child care space" in daycare are $4,849.
- Costs per "child" in the province (ie if they spread it out per
capita for children 0-12) are $1,448.
- Daycare doesn't lower "child poverty " rates afterall. Low income
rates for kids in 2003 (LICO=low income cut off ): LICO for all Canada
for ages under 18 is 17.6%. Quebec's child LICO rates are higher than
those of Ontario where daycare expenditures are less (see Ontario
section below). Quebec LICO rates are as follows:
| age 0-2: |
16% |
| age 3-5:
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19.8% |
| age 6-12:
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14% |
| total:
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16% |
Quebec daycare is not doing much to reduce low income rates there.
Giving the $1,448 per kid to the parents would.
- Mothers' Labour Force Participation Rates (daycare is supposed to
make big difference):
| Youngest child |
Canada Wide |
Quebec |
Ontario |
PEI |
Alberta |
| 0-3 |
65.8 |
72.6 |
67.8 |
78.4 |
59.1 |
| 3-5 |
74.6 |
76.7 |
74.1 |
81.5 |
71.4 |
| 6-15 |
82.3 |
82.9 |
82.8 |
87.1 |
83.6 |
This shows that Quebec's mothers do not have a higher than average
labour force participation rate except for mums of kids age 0-2. Alberta,
which has a low daycare expenditure, has a higher rate of labour force
participation for mums of children age 6-12. PEI (a low expenditure
province also) has the highest rate for mums of all ages of children.
ONTARIO
- Expenditure per "child care space" in daycare:$2,406.
- Costs per "child" in the province (i.e. if they spread it out per
capita for children 0-12) are $258.
- LICO (low income rates): Daycare is said to lower "child poverty".
It doesn't—Ontario has a lower LICO rate than big daycare Quebec:
| age 0-2: |
12.1% |
| age 3-5:
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16% |
| age 6-12:
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15.4% |
| total:
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14.9% |
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