Table 4 Mothers with infants less than 13 months who were employed in a paid job before birth

	Mothers employed before birth	and employer top-up benefits	and no employer top-up benefits	No paid benefits
	Mothers employed before birth	Received Employment Insurance/Quebec Parental Insurance Plan (EI/QPIP)		No paid 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	9^E	25^E
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	2.6^E	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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