Diversity and retention of early learning and child care workers in Canada
Description: Diversity and retention of early learning and child care workers in Canada
Early learning and child care (ELCC) workers include early childhood educators and assistants and home child care providers.
Sex | Early learning and child care workers | Non-early learning and child care workers |
---|---|---|
percentage | ||
Women | 95.9 | 47.3 |
Men | 4.1 | 52.7 |
In 2016, 70% of ELCC workers were White, compared with 78% of non-ELCC workers.
Population group | Early learning and child care workers | Non-early learning and child care workers |
---|---|---|
percentage | ||
Filipino | 7.8 | 2.6 |
South Asian | 5.5 | 5.6 |
Black | 4.6 | 3.3 |
Arab | 3.0 | 1.2 |
Chinese | 3.0 | 4.5 |
Latin American | 2.5 | 1.5 |
Southeast Asian | 0.7 | 1.0 |
- 8% of ELCC workers and 37% of home child care providers in private households were Filipino.
- South Asian and Black people accounted for the two largest population groups among early childhood educators and assistants, after White people.
3 in 10 ELCC workers (31%) had a non-official language as their mother tongue, a higher proportion than non-ELCC workers (23%).
Knowledge of official languages | Early learning and child care workers | Non-early learning and child care workers |
---|---|---|
percentage | ||
English only | 60 | 69 |
French only | 20 | 9 |
English and French | 18 | 21 |
62% of those who were working as early childhood educators or assistants in 2011 were still in an ELCC occupation after five years, versus 38% of home child care providers.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Census of Population, 2011 and 2016; Choi, Y. 2022. “Gender differences in sociodemographic and economic characteristics of early learning child care workers.” Economic and Social Reports, 2(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.25318/36280001202200100001-eng
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