List of tables

Table 2.1: Age distribution of the LSAC sample

Table 2.2: Age of study child and age of youngest child

Table 3.1: Labour force status by family type and age of youngest child, mothers and fathers

Table 3.2: Employment rate by age of child, mothers and fathers, infant cohort

Table 3.3: Mothers' reasons for absence from work, infant cohort

Table 3.4: Mothers' reasons for absence from work, 4–5 year-old cohort

Table 3.5: Fathers' reasons for absence from work, infant and 4–5 year-old cohort

Table 3.6: Labour force status by age of study child, mothers of infant cohort

Table 3.7: Mothers' labour force status by age of child and employment status while pregnant with study child

Table 3.8: Percentage employed by number of children, educational attainment, health status and age of youngest child

Table 3.9: Usual working hours by age of youngest child and family type, employed parents

Table 3.10: Mothers' preferred working hours, by hours worked and age of youngest child, employed mothers

Table 3.11: Mothers' preferred working hours, by hours worked and family type, employed mothers

Table 3.12: Fathers' preferred working hours by hours worked, employed fathers

Table 3.13: Within-couple working hours, by age of youngest child

Table 3.14: Relationship between partnered mothers' and fathers' working hours by age of youngest child

Table 3.15: Joblessness in couple-parent families by highest parental education level and age of youngest child

Table 3.16: Occupation of mothers and fathers by age of youngest child, employed parents

Table 3.17: Occupation of mothers by family type, employed mothers of both cohorts

Table 3.18: Type of employment of mothers and fathers, by family type and age of youngest child, employed parents

Table 3.19: Access to family-friendly work arrangements by age of youngest child, employed mothers and fathers

Table 3.20: Access to family-friendly work arrangements by family type, employed mothers

Table 3.21: Job type and work arrangements, employed parents both cohorts

Table 4.1: Child care use by family type and parental work status, infant cohort

Table 4.2: Main reasons for using child care by family type and parental employment status, infant cohort families using child care

Table 4.3: Satisfaction with main child care used by type of care, infant cohort, families using child care

Table 4.4: Child care use by family characteristics, working families, infant cohort

Table 4.5: Child care use by job characteristics, working families, infant cohort

Table 4.6: Partner involvement in care by job type of primary carer, dual-employed couples who use no child care, infant cohort

Table 4.7: Child care types by family type and hours worked by primary carer, working families, infant cohort

Table 4.8: Main reason for not using child care, infant cohort

Table 4.9: Child care use by parental employment and presence of younger siblings, 4–5 year-old cohort

Table 4.10: Child care use by family type and parental employment status, 4–5 year-old cohort

Table 4.11: Reasons for using more than one type of child care, 4–5 year-old cohort

Table 4.12: Satisfaction with main child care used, families with children in school, preschool or day care

Table 4.13: Child care use by family characteristics, working families, 4–5 year-old cohort

Table 4.14: Child care use by job characteristics, working families, 4–5 year-old cohort

Table 4.15: Child care types by family type and hours worked by primary carer, working families, 4–5 year-old cohort

Table 5.1: Mean time spent with mothers and fathers, by children's activities and cohort

Table 5.2: Mean time spent with mother and father by mother's hours of work

Table 5.3: Mean time spent with mothers and fathers by child's activities and mother's work hours, infant cohort

Table 5.4: Mean time spent with mothers and fathers, by child's activities and mother's work hours, 4–5 year-old cohort

Table 5.5: Mean time spent with mother and father, by father's hours of work

Table 5.6: Mean time spent with father by child's activities, father's work hours and cohort

Table 5.7: Perceived co-parenting, by own hours worked

Table 5.8: Co-parenting by partner's hours worked

Table 6.1: Unequivalised and equivalised weekly household income, by cohort and family type

Table 6.2: Unequivalised and equivalised weekly household income, by cohort, family type and family labour supply

Table 6.3: Number of hardships experienced, couple-parent and single-mother families, by cohort

Table 6.4: Perceived family prosperity, couple-parent and single-mother families, by cohort

Table 6.5: Perceived prosperity, by age cohort, family type and family labour supply

Table 6.6: Receipt of income support payments, by family type, cohort and family labour supply

Table 7.1: Work–family spillover measures, employed parents, both cohorts

Table 7.2: Work–family gains, mean work–family spillover measures, employed mothers and fathers

Table 7.3: Work–family strains, mean work–family spillover measures, employed mothers and fathers

Table 7.4: Work–family spillover scores, employed mothers and fathers, by hours worked

Table 8.1: Wellbeing of mothers and fathers, mean scores

Table 8.2: Wellbeing by work status: mean scores for mothers, by family type, and fathers

Table 8.3: Predicted wellbeing: employed mothers by hours worked

Table 8.4: Predicted wellbeing: employed fathers by hours worked

Table 8.5: Predicted wellbeing: couple mothers, by partner's hours worked

Table 8.6: Predicted wellbeing: couple fathers, by mother's hours worked

Table 8.7: Predicted wellbeing: employed parents, by preferred working hours

Appendix tables

Table A1: ABS and LSAC definitions of employment

Table A2: Employment rate of mothers and fathers by family type, families with children under 5 years, 2001 and 2004

Table B1: Family labour supply, families with children under 5 years old, 1984 and 2004

Table B2: Percentage employed, mothers and fathers by age of youngest child, 4–5 year-old cohort

Table B3: Mothers' return to work timing and whether study child has younger siblings, 4–5 year-old cohort

Table B4: Job autonomy by age of youngest child, employed parents

Table B5: Job security by age of youngest child, employed parents

Table C1: Likelihood of parental care only, logistic regression results, working families, infant cohort

Table C2: Child care type, multinomial logistic regression results, working families, infant cohort

Table C3: Likelihood of using school/preschool only, logistic regression results, working families, 4–5 year-old cohort

Table C4: Detailed child care use by family characteristics, families with working parent(s), 4–5 year-old cohort

Table C5: Detailed child care use by job characteristics, families with working parent(s), 4–5 year-old cohort

Table D1: Wellbeing Model Set 1, logistic regression, all mothers

Table D2: Wellbeing Model Set 1, logistic regression, all fathers

Table D3: Wellbeing Model Set 1, OLS, all mothers

Table D4: Wellbeing Model Set 1, OLS, all fathers

Table D5: Wellbeing Model Set 2, logistic regression, employed mothers

Table D6: Wellbeing Model Set 2, logistic regression, employed fathers

Table D7: Wellbeing Model Set 2, OLS, employed mothers

Table D8: Wellbeing Model Set 2, OLS, employed fathers

Table D9: Wellbeing Model Set 3, logistic regression, couple mothers

Table D10: Wellbeing Model Set 3, logistic regression, couple fathers

Table D11: Wellbeing Model Set 3, OLS, couple mothers

Table D12: Wellbeing Model Set 3, OLS, couple fathers

Table D13: Wellbeing Model Set 4, logistic regression, employed mothers

Table D14: Wellbeing Model Set 4, logistic regression, employed fathers

Table D15: Wellbeing Model Set 4, OLS, employed mothers

Table D16: Wellbeing Model Set 4, OLS, employed fathers

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