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LEARN MORE ABOUT .idIn the City of Greater Bendigo 15,895 females (30.8% of females aged 15+) provided unpaid care to children in 2021. Of these, 5,141 females were caring for children other than their own.
The role of unpaid childcare in the City of Greater Bendigo is determined by many different factors. For example areas with high levels of unpaid child care may have a dominance of single income families with one significant earner, or there could be a lack of provision of paid child care in the area. The level to which people care for others children can also indicate the role of extended family (eg. grandparents caring for grandchildren, family day care).
The role of unpaid child care is a complex one so this topic should be viewed in conjunction with several others, including Household Type, Employment, Household Income and Educational Attendance.
Q:
Derived from the Census question:
'In the last two weeks did the person spend time looking after a child, without pay?', which specifically asks respondents to differentiate between caring for their own children and caring for others children.
Dominant groups
Analysis of the unpaid child care provided by the female population in the City of Greater Bendigo in 2021 compared to Maiden Gully shows that there was a lower proportion of females who provided unpaid child care either to their own or to other children. Overall, 30.8% of the female population provided unpaid child care, compared with 41.3% for Maiden Gully.
The major differences between the share of the female population providing unpaid child care in the City of Greater Bendigo and Maiden Gully were:
- A larger percentage who did not provide care for children (63.1% compared to 55.9%)
- A smaller percentage who provided unpaid childcare for own child/ren (20.9% compared to 29.6%)
- A smaller percentage who provided unpaid childcare for other child/ren (9.0% compared to 10.4%)
Emerging groups
The number of females who provided unpaid child care for their own and/or other people's children in City of Greater Bendigo increased by 630 between 2016 and 2021.
The largest changes in the number of females performing unpaid child care in the City of Greater Bendigo, between 2016 and 2021 were those who:
- No unpaid child care provided (+5,226 females)
- Cared for own child/ren (+1,166 females)
- Cared for other child/ren (-451 females)
- Cared for own child/ren and other child/ren (-85 females)
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