Just over half (52%) of Canadian children younger than 6 years were in licensed or unlicensed child care in early 2022. This percentage was unchanged from late 2020 when the Survey on Early Learning and Child Care Arrangements (SELCCA) was last collected, but was down from 60% in 2019, before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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