Table 4 Mothers with infants less than 13 months who were employed in a paid job before birth
Mothers employed before birth | Received Employment Insurance/Quebec Parental Insurance Plan (EI/QPIP) | No paid benefits | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
and employer top-up benefits | and no employer top-up benefits | |||
All mothers | 299,000 | 51,100 | 203,500 | 44,400 |
% | ||||
Returned or plans to return to same employer | 100 | 100 | 100 | 100 |
Yes | 76 | 96 | 77* | 46* |
No | 10 | F | 9E | 25E |
Will not return within 18 months | 15 | F | 15 | 29 |
Mothers with a spouse | weeks | |||
Average weeks off for returning mothers | 45.5 | 47.8 | 46.3 | 34.3* |
Average weeks claimed by fathers1 | 1.9 | 2.6E | 1.6 | F |
Average weeks off by couple | 47.4 | 50.3 | 48.0* | 37.1* |
% | ||||
Couple will claim all available EI/QPIP benefits | 91 | 88 | 93 | F |
1. Averaged over all couples. The average weeks for fathers who claimed benefits was seven. * significantly different from those with EI/QPIP and top-up at the 0.05 level Source: Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance Coverage Survey, 2008. |
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