Workers in child care centres are most likely to work in for-profit centres operating in a single location
In Canada, child care centres providing care to children five years of age and younger employed approximately 137,000 people working on a full- or part-time basis in April 2022. The study "Child care centre workers serving children aged 0 to 5 years in Canada, 2021 to 2022," released today in Economic and Social Reports, uses an innovative business approach to gain insights into the centre-based child care workforce in Canada. Instead of parent-reports, data from the 2022 Canadian Study on the Provision of Child Care Services were assessed for how characteristics such as roles and composition of employees, rates of pay and benefits, employee turnover and vacancies, differed based on centre ownership and organizational structure.
Centres varied by ownership (not-for-profit/government-operated, or for-profit) and organizational structure (whether the owner operated a single site or multiple locations). In 2022, just over one-third (35%) of child care workers were employed in for-profit independent settings, while over one-quarter (27%) worked at either a not-for-profit or government-operated independent (single) centre or a not-for-profit or government-operated multisite centre (26%). Just over one-tenth (11%) worked at for-profit multisite centres.
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