Sick Child Care-related Needs According to the Type of Household -Single-Mother Households and Double-income Nuclear Families : Table 5

Table 5: Parents' requests regarding sick child care N=145.
a: Wilcoxon rank sum test, b: Polycoric ordinal alpha coefficient Double-income nuclear family: Each mean factor score is significantly different among the three factors (P<0.0008), Wilcoxon signed-rank test or paired t-test, Bonferroni correlation P<0.0167.
Single mother: Each mean factor score is not different among the three factors (P>0.0169), Paired t-test, Bonferroni correlation P<0.0167.

Factor	Items	Double-income nuclear family		Single-mother		P-value
		n=131		n=14
		Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Subsidies for care fees: 0.96^b		2.8	0.74	2.93	0.83	0.4349
	I desire more public subsidies according to the income.	2.97	0.92	3.36	0.93	0.1038
	I desire lower care fees.	2.74	0.92	2.86	1.17	0.6289
	I desire financial support from my workplace.	2.68	1.02	2.93	1.14	0.3664
	I wish that care fees were fully subsidized.	2.49	0.96	2.64	1.22	0.659
	I desire a reduction in fees for nursery school and sick child care when using such care.	3.15	0.93	2.86	1.29	0.4767
Expansion of care services: 0.82^b		2.58	0.68	2.98	0.98	0.0907
	I desire an increase in the number of nursery staff members.	2.52	0.81	3	1.04	0.0659
	I desire an increase in the number of nurses.	2.45	0.76	2.86	1.03	0.1058
	I wish that nurseries were open on weekends and holidays.	2.75	0.96	3.07	1.14	0.2144
Increase in the capacity to accept children: 0.83^b		3.44	0.63	3.64	0.5	0.274
	I desire an increased capacity to accept children.	3.25	0.83	3.43	0.76	0.4489
	I desire an increase in the number of care facilities.	3.64	0.6	3.86	0.36	0.1981
Scale: 0.86^b		2.87	0.54	3.09	0.6	0.1505