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Table 13: Characteristics of childcare workforce, January 2007
| Childminders | Pre-school education and daycare staff |
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Number | Percentage of all | Number | Percentage of all |
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Gender |
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Male | 60 | 1 | 820 | 3 |
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Female | 5320 | 96 | 26,350 | 97 |
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Unknown | 140 | 2 | 110 | 0 |
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Age (years) |
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Under 25 | 20 | 0 | 5,330 | 20 |
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25 to 35 | 870 | 16 | 8,090 | 30 |
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36 to 45 | 2280 | 41 | 6,990 | 26 |
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46 to 55 | 1640 | 30 | 5,130 | 19 |
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Over 55 | 640 | 12 | 1,700 | 6 |
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Unknown | 50 | 1 | 40 | 0 |
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Length of time registered (childminders only) |
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One year or less | 630 | 11 | | |
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1 to less than 2 years | 480 | 9 | | |
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2 to 5 years | 1550 | 28 | | |
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6 to 10 years | 1110 | 20 | | |
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More than 10 years | 1720 | 31 | | |
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Unknown | 20 | 0 | | |
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Typical number of hours worked per week (childminders only) |
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Under 10 hours | 250 | 4 | | |
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10-19 hours | 360 | 7 | | |
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20-29 hours | 630 | 11 | | |
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30-39 hours | 1230 | 22 | | |
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40-49 hours | 2120 | 39 | | |
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50+ hours | 790 | 14 | | |
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Unknown | 120 | 2 | | |
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Number of weeks worked in the past year (childminders only) |
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None | 330 | 6 | | |
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1-20 weeks | 370 | 7 | | |
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21-40 weeks | 670 | 12 | | |
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More than 40 weeks | 4140 | 75 | | |
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Unknown | 0 | 0 | | |
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Other jobs apart from childminding (childminders only) |
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Yes | 730 | 13 | | |
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No | 4650 | 84 | | |
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Unknown | 130 | 2 | | |
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Other job type (childminders with other job only) |
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Childcare | 210 | 29 | | |
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Non childcare | 510 | 69 | | |
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Unknown | 10 | 1 | | |
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Note: Numbers of childminders and childcare staff are rounded to the nearest 10. Percentages and staff numbers may not always equal the sum of their parts due to rounding.
The number of childminders is an estimate based on the total number of registered childminders (6,020) provided by the Care Commission, minus the proportion who responded to the survey saying they were inactive. See Appendix 2 for confidence intervals.
The number of childcare staff is an estimate based on the total number of staff working directly with children (Table 11), excluding those in public and private playgroups or in private family centres or where the main service type of the centre was unknown, giving a total of 27,280. See Appendix 3 for confidence intervals.
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