Table 2 
Type of child care child care arrangement, by age group, household population aged 0 to 5, Canada 

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Type of child care child care arrangement, by age group, household population aged 0 to 5, Canada
Number – Children% – ChildrenLower limit (%) – 95% confidence interval1Upper limit (%) – 95% confidence interval1
Overall        
Daycare centre, preschool, or centre de la petite enfance (CPE) 717,317 51.9 49.9 53.8
Care by a relative other than parent 353,730 25.6 23.8 27.4
Care by a non-relative in the child's home 69,437 5.0 4.2 6.1
Family child care home 281,569 20.4 18.8 22.0
Before or after school program 128,911 9.3 8.3 10.5
Other child care arrangement 43,372 3.1 2.5 3.9
Children less than one year of age        
Daycare centre, preschool, or CPE 18,822 21.9E 14.9 31.0
Care by a relative other than parent 39,013 45.5 35.6 55.7
Care by a non-relative in the child's home 13,054 15.2E 8.6 25.5
Family child care home 20,911 24.4 16.7 34.1
Before or after school program 0.0 0.0 ... ...
Other child care arrangement x x ... ...
Children aged 1 to 3        
Daycare centre, preschool, or CPE 454,047 58.2 55.5 60.8
Care by a relative other than parent 197,429 25.3 23.0 27.7
Care by a non-relative in the child's home 32,472 4.2 3.2 5.5
Family child care home 185,108 23.7 21.6 26.0
Before or after school program F F ... ...
Other child care arrangement 19,637 2.5E 1.8 3.5
Children aged 4 and 5        
Daycare centre, preschool, or CPE 235,610 47.3 44.3 50.2
Care by a relative other than parent 111,255 22.3 19.8 25.1
Care by a non-relative in the child's home 22,747 4.6 3.3 6.3
Family child care home 70,915 14.2 12.2 16.5
Before or after school program 126,823 25.4 22.7 28.4
Other child care arrangement 19,753 4.0 2.9 5.4
...
not applicable
x
suppressed to meet the confidentiality requirements of the Statistics Act
E
use with caution
F
too unreliable to be published
Note(s):
Types of care do not add up to 100% because children could be in multiple types of care or in no care.
Source(s):
Survey on Early Learning and Child Care Arrangements (5287).

Table note 1

Confidence intervals are used to express the precision of the estimate.
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