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  • 1. The likelihood and timing of mothers’ return to work and child care arrangements after parental leave, revisited
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600700003
    Description: This study examines the likelihood of mothers returning to work following parental leave as well as the child care arrangements among mothers who worked before the birth of their child, with a particular focus on recent policy changes. It draws on data from the Employment Insurance Coverage Survey (EICS), spanning from 2020 to 2023.
    Release date: 2026-07-22
  • 2. Early learning and child care: Data visualization tool
    Data Visualization: 71-607-X2021007
    Description: This interactive tool provides information on early learning and child care in Canada related to high quality care, accessibility, affordability, flexibility, and inclusivity. Indicators, data and research from a variety of sources are available to present information for stakeholders and the Canadian public in general.
    Release date: 2026-07-08
  • 3. The early learning and child care industry in Canada: An update to the 2021 report
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600600001
    Description: This study provides an update to a 2021 report that produced novel estimates of the business characteristics, gross domestic product and business dynamics of child care businesses in Canada through 2016. Administrative data on all tax-filing business in Canada are used to identify incorporated businesses, typically representing child care centres, and unincorporated businesses, typically representing home-based child care businesses without employees.
    Release date: 2026-06-24
  • 4. Proportion of annual family income spent on child care, by economic family type
    Table: 11-10-0080-01
    Geography: Canada
    Frequency: Annual
    Description: Proportion of annual after-tax family income spent on child care, by economic family type and age of youngest child, Canada.
    Release date: 2026-04-29
  • 5. Insights into the accessibility, affordability, inclusivity, flexibility and quality of child care centres in Canada, 2024
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202600400001
    Description: In 2021, the Canadian federal government committed over $27.2 billion in funding through bilateral agreements with the provinces and territories toward building the Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care system. Integral to these agreements were investments allocated by provinces and territories toward five foundational pillars of the Multilateral Early Learning and Child Care Framework: provision of accessible, affordable, inclusive, flexible and high-quality care. This study uses data from the 2024 Canadian Survey on the Provision of Child Care Services to examine the characteristics of child care centres in Canada during this period of policy reform, with an emphasis on elements of care reflective of the five pillars of the multilateral framework.
    Release date: 2026-04-22
  • 6. Study: An overview of child care services in the minority official language in Canada 2021/2022
    Stats in brief: 11-001-X202608639604
    Description: Release published in The Daily – Statistics Canada’s official release bulletin
    Release date: 2026-03-27
  • 7. Language of daycare attended and reasons for attending a daycare in the minority or majority official language, among children in a minority official language situation
    Table: 42-10-0101-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Official language of daycare and reasons for attending, by elementary school language and type of program, age group and gender, for Canada, Quebec, Canada outside Quebec, by provinces and select regions, among sub-populations of children in a minority official language situation, 2022.
    Release date: 2026-03-27
  • 8. Language of daycare attended and preference for minority official language daycare, among children in a minority official language situation
    Table: 42-10-0102-01
    Geography: Canada, Geographical region of Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Preference for daycare in the minority official language, by elementary school language and type of program, age group and gender, for Canada, Quebec, Canada outside Quebec, by provinces and select regions, among sub-populations of children in a minority official language situation, 2022.
    Release date: 2026-03-27
  • 9. Survey on Early Learning and Child Care Arrangements: Public Use Microdata File
    Public use microdata: 42-25-0001
    Description: This public use microdata file (PUMF) contains non-aggregated data for a wide variety of variables collected from the Survey on Early Learning and Child Care Arrangements (SELCCA).

    SELCCA addresses child care in Canada for children younger than 6 years old, asks about the different types of early learning and child care arrangements that families use, difficulties some families may face when looking for care, as well as reasons for not using child care.
    Release date: 2026-03-12
  • 10. Demand to use or change child care arrangements, children aged 0 to 5 years
    Table: 42-10-0109-01
    Geography: Canada, Province or territory
    Frequency: Occasional
    Description: Number and percentage of children aged 0 to 5 years by demand to use or change child care arrangements and by age group.
    Release date: 2026-03-12
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  • 11. Identification of Children with Disabilities in the Survey on Early Learning and Child Care Arrangements: Children with Long-term Conditions and Disabilities
    Articles and reports: 11-633-X2024006
    Description: The present study examined and compared four measures that assessed child difficulties, long-term conditions, activity limitations or disabilities to shed light on the use of non-parental child care among young children with disabilities at a national level.
    Release date: 2025-01-23
  • 12. Child care centre workers serving children aged 0 to 5 years in Canada, 2021 to 2022
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202401200004
    Description: In 2021, the federal government of Canada committed over $27.2 billion in funding through bilateral agreements with the provinces and territories towards building a Canada-wide Early Learning and Child Care system. As part of these agreements, a multilateral workforce strategy was proposed in recognition of the central role of child care workers in providing high quality child care services, and the need to attract and retain qualified and committed individuals in the sector. This study fills information gaps related to the centre-based child care workforce providing care to children aged 0 to 5 years.
    Release date: 2024-12-19
  • 13. Child care for young children with disabilities
    Articles and reports: 82-003-X202401000003
    Description: More than half (56%) of Canadian children aged 0 to 5 years are in non-parental child care, but data on child care attendance among children with disabilities is limited. This study examines child care participation among young children with disabilities in Canada, with a focus on different disability types.
    Release date: 2024-10-16
  • 14. How do parents share child care?
    Stats in brief: 11-627-M2024041
    Description: Using data from the 2022 Time Use Survey, this infographic explores how parents in different-gender couples share the unpaid work of caring for their own children. It examines how much time parents spend caring for children, how parents report sharing child care in their households, when equal sharing is more or less common, and how sharing child care is linked to time pressure.
    Release date: 2024-10-07
  • 15. “Sandwiched” between unpaid care for children and care-dependent adults: A gender-based study
    Articles and reports: 89-652-X2024002
    Description: Using data from the 2022 Canadian Social Survey Wave 6 (Well-being and caregiving), this study explores unpaid caregiving in the past 12 months for care-dependent groups (children under 15 years old or adults and youth over 15 years old with a long-term condition or disability). This paper explores: Who are the unpaid caregivers, including "sandwich" caregivers? How much unpaid care is provided and to whom? What are the impacts of this unpaid caregiving on well-being, especially the gendered differences?
    Release date: 2024-04-02
  • 16. Canada's Care Economy: A Conceptual Framework
    Articles and reports: 89-652-X2023002
    Description: This report presents a conceptual framework of Canada’s care economy. This framework is based on a review of Canadian and international research on the topic as well as consultations with key stakeholders and experts. The report summarizes relevant research on the care economy, delineates the scope and boundaries for the Canadian context, and proposes key definitions of paid and unpaid care work.
    Release date: 2023-11-29
  • 17. Employment situations and child care arrangements after mothers’ return to work following parental leave
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202301100005
    Description: Since the late 2000s, most Canadian mothers who were working before childbirth or adoption have intended to return to work after parental leave. Whether mothers return to the same employer after childbirth is important in understanding their wages and career trajectories. This article examines whether mothers’ employment situations and child care arrangements after returning to work differed between two cohorts of mothers from 2009 and 2019.
    Release date: 2023-11-22
  • 18. Use of government business liquidity support by child care businesses in Canada during the COVID-19 pandemic
    Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202301000002
    Description: To alleviate the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on businesses, the Government of Canada launched various liquidity support programs. This study examines the use of four emergency government support programs—the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS), the Canada Emergency Commercial Rent Assistance (CECRA), the Canada Emergency Rent Subsidy (CERS) and the Canada Emergency Business Account (CEBA)—by the child care businesses that qualified for them.
    Release date: 2023-10-25
  • 19. Estimating Expenditures on Children by Families in Canada, 2014 to 2017
    Articles and reports: 11F0019M2023007
    Description: Caring for children is among the key functions of families and the larger society. In Canada, the question of affordability issues for families with children has become an increasingly important area of public policy. Also, information on the monetary cost of meeting children’s needs for food, shelter, clothing, health care, and education is important for family planning and budgeting decisions made by people raising children.
    Release date: 2023-09-29
  • 20. Market basket measure research paper: Child care expenses
    Articles and reports: 75F0002M2023002
    Description: This discussion paper begins by explaining what is commonly understood as child care and how child care expenses currently enter the market basket measure (MBM) methodology. It then describes an alternative approach to account for child care expenses by incorporating them as a separate component within the MBM based on the reference family. A discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each approach is also provided. The public and stakeholders are invited to provide feedback and comments on the discussion points presented.
    Release date: 2023-07-27
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  • 1. Survey of Child Care
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3807
    Description: The purpose of this survey was to gather information on child care in Canada.
  • 2. National Child Care Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 3848
    Description: This survey provides valid comprehensive data on Canadian economic families' child care needs, use patterns and parental preferences and concerns.
  • 3. Survey on Early Learning and Child Care Arrangements (SELCCA)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5287
    Description: Statistics Canada gathers information on early learning and child care arrangements for children under the age of 6 in the 3 territories of Canada.
  • 4. Canadian Survey on the Provision of Child Care Services
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5338
    Description: The purpose of this survey is to collect information on the provision of child care services in Canada for children ages 12 and under at the national, provincial and territorial level. Data is collected from licensed and unlicensed home-based and centre-based child care providers. Questions will be asked about staff, services provided, enrollment and daily fees as well as the extent of challenges related to COVID-19. The data will be used by Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) for policy research and development.
  • 5. Survey on Before and After School Care in Canada
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5343
    Description: The purpose of this survey is to address child care in Canada for children who are attending school (i.e. ages 4 to 12). The survey will ask about the different types of learning and child care arrangements used by families, difficulties some families may face when looking for care, as well as reasons for not using child care.
  • 6. Canadian Survey on Early Learning and Child Care (CSELCC)
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5371
    Description: The survey asks parents and guardians about the arrangements they use for their child aged 0 to 5, including the associated costs, the difficulties they may have faced when looking for care, and what their preferences for child care are. This survey also collects information on parents' and guardian's labour market participation to better understand the interaction between work and the use of early learning and child care arrangements. Results from this survey will be used to help improve the Canada-wide early learning and child care system and provide Canadians with a strong baseline of data to measure progress and changes to the system.
  • 7. Canadian Child Care Worker Survey
    Surveys and statistical programs – Documentation: 5434
    Description: The Canadian Child Care Worker Survey (CCCWS), sponsored by Employment and Social Development Canada, collects information from centre-based child care workers on factors related to the workplace and staff well-being.

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