Outline of the Fifth Longitudinal Survey of Babies in 21st Century

20% of fathers spend “less than 30 minutes” with their children on weekdays.

With regard to time spent with the children on weekdays, 54.0% of the mothers spend “6 hours or more” with their children. On the other hand, 28.7% of fathers spend “from 2 up to 4 hours,” 23.5% spend “from 1 up to 2 hours” and 21.2% spend “less than 30 minutes” with their children.

Compared to the results of the 2nd survey (child at 18 months old), the proportion of mothers spending “6 hours or more” has dropped from 74.6% to 54.0%. While a decreasing number of fathers spend 2 hours or more, the number of those spending less than 2 hours is on the increase.

There was no major change, among both fathers and mothers, in the time spent with their children on holidays (Table 7).

(Unit: %)
	Weekday				Holiday
	Mother		Father		Mother		Father
	5th survey	2nd survey	5th survey	2nd survey	5th survey	2nd survey	5th survey	2nd survey
Total	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Less than 30 minutes	0.2	0.2	21.2	15.7	0.2	0.1	1.5	0.9
From 30 up to 60 minutes	0.6	0.6	14.0	12.5	0.2	0.2	1.5	1.6
From 1 up to 2 hours	2.6	1.5	23.5	21.4	0.7	0.5	4.0	3.6
From 2 up to 4 hours	14.6	8.8	28.7	33.2	2.6	1.9	9.3	8.8
From 4 up to 6 hours	25.8	11.6	8.6	11.9	4.8	4.0	12.6	14.0
6 hours or more	54.0	74.6	1.6	2.2	88.9	90.4	68.0	67.6
Unknown	2.1	2.7	2.4	3.1	2.6	2.9	3.1	3.5

Note:

The figures for “mother” are based on the total responses of children living with their mothers (total number of mothers: 38,810) and “father” is based
on the total responses of those living with their fathers (total number of fathers: 36,733) at the times of the 2nd and 5th surveys.

(3) Time Spent with the Children