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4) Child care leave

Table 7 Status of taking child care leave, by the size of the enterprises where mothers/fathers work as full-time workers
(unit: %)
    Total 1-4 5-99 100-499 More
than 500
Public
offices
Not
stated
Mother Total 7,251   184 2,097 1,629 1,768 1,443 130
  100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Taken/On/Plan to take child care leave 5,815 80.2 47.8 66.8 82.3 85.8 94.9 75.4
  On child care leave 4,724 65.1 23.9 46.9 63.0 73.5 89.5 60.0
Not taken child care leave 1,393 19.2 51.6 32.4 17.2 13.8 5.0 16.9
  Has not taken child care leave despite the existence of the system 881 12.2 15.2 16.2 14.1 11.9 4.2 9.2
  Due to the working atmosphere 404 5.6 6.5 8.3 6.0 5.1 1.5 6.2
Due to financial reasons 263 3.6 3.3 4.5 4.4 4.0 1.3 0.8
Due to hopes to return to work quickly 100 1.4 4.3 1.5 1.4 1.4 0.8 1.5
Due to the spouse on child care leave - - - - - - - -
Other reasons 108 1.5 1.1 1.8 2.0 1.4 0.6 0.8
Not stated reasons 6 0.1 - 0.0 0.2 - 0.1 -
No existence of the system 326 4.5 26.1 10.3 1.7 1.1 0.6 4.6
Unaware of the existence of the system 186 2.6 10.3 5.9 1.4 0.7 0.2 3.1
Not stated 43 0.6 0.5 0.8 0.5 0.4 0.1 7.7
Father Total 38,192   1,413 12,926 7,580 11,305 3,791 1,177
  100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0
Taken/On/Plan to take child care leave 256 0.7 0.5 0.5 0.7 0.8 1.2 0.4
  On child care leave 6 0.0 - 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 -
Not taken child care leave 30,594 80.1 79.3 79.2 79.5 82.0 83.5 65.8
  Has not taken child care leave despite the existence of the system 11,978 31.4 4.7 12.7 27.8 47.0 68.6 21.4
  Due to the working atmosphere 4,437 11.6 1.0 4.2 10.3 20.0 19.9 7.3
Due to financial reasons 1,394 3.6 1.3 2.1 4.1 4.9 5.9 2.0
Due to hopes to continue to work 508 1.3 0.6 0.7 1.0 2.0 2.2 1.6
Due to the spouse on child care leave 2,401 6.3 1.0 2.9 5.2 6.7 21.7 3.8
Other reasons 3,019 7.9 0.8 2.6 6.7 12.7 17.5 5.5
Not stated reasons 219 0.6 0.1 0.3 0.5 0.8 1.3 1.2
No existence of the system 9,527 24.9 58.8 40.2 22.3 12.2 4.4 22.9
Unaware of the existence of the system 9,089 23.8 15.8 26.3 29.5 22.9 10.4 21.4
Not stated 7,342 19.2 20.2 20.4 19.8 17.2 15.4 33.8
Note : Only the babies staying with their mothers/fathers who are full-time workers at the time of the survey are aggregated.


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