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Table 18
Population aged 1 to 9 years in child care, by main child care type, age group and sex, Canada, 2010 Table 18
Population aged 1 to 9 years in child care, by main child care type, age group and sex, Canada, 2010

Table 18
Population aged 1 to 9 years in child care, by main child care type, age group and sex, Canada, 2010
Table summary
This table displays the results of Population aged 1 to 9 years in child care. The information is grouped by Type of child care (appearing as row headers), Total - 1 to 9 years, 1 to 2 years, 3 to 5 years, 6 to 9 years, Females and Males, calculated using percentage units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Type of child care	Total - 1 to 9 years		1 to 2 years		3 to 5 years		6 to 9 years
	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males	Females	Males
	percent
Daycare centre	31.9	31.7	45.3	46.7	43.3	40.5	10.7^{Note E: Use with caution}	10.0^{Note E: Use with caution}
Care in someone else's home	29.7	30.1	37.9	36.6	25.8	27.3	28.0	28.3
By a non-relative (e.g., home daycare)	20.4	20.8	29.1	28.2	18.4	20.7	16.5^{Note E: Use with caution}	15.0^{Note E: Use with caution}
By a relative	9.3	9.4	8.8^{Note E: Use with caution}	8.4^{Note E: Use with caution}	7.4	6.7^{Note E: Use with caution}	11.5^{Note E: Use with caution}	13.2^{Note E: Use with caution}
Care in child's own home	12.9	13.3	11.9	12.3	10.5	10.8	16.3	16.9^{Note E: Use with caution}
By a non-relative (e.g., babysitter, nanny)	6.8	7.0	6.0^{Note E: Use with caution}	5.8^{Note E: Use with caution}	5.5^{Note E: Use with caution}	5.8^{Note E: Use with caution}	8.6^{Note E: Use with caution}	9.3^{Note E: Use with caution}
By a relative	6.2	6.3	5.9^{Note E: Use with caution}	6.5^{Note E: Use with caution}	4.9^{Note E: Use with caution}	4.9^{Note E: Use with caution}	7.6^{Note E: Use with caution}	7.6^{Note E: Use with caution}
Nursery school or preschool	5.2	4.7	4.2^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published	10.8	10.2	0.0	0.0
Before‑ and after‑school program	18.8	18.2	0.0	0.0	9.3	9.5	41.3	42.4
Other child care arrangement	Note F: too unreliable to be published	1.9^{Note E: Use with caution}	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published	Note F: too unreliable to be published
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
^E use with caution F too unreliable to be published Notes: Totals may not add to 100.0% as figures have been rounded. There are no statistically significant differences between females and males within age groups. Source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Young Canadians, 2010.

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