Interviews on Early Childhood Education and Care Arrangements during COVID-19: Parents of Children under School Age 2020-2021

The data consists of information collected from parents of five- and six-year-old children on their childcare arrangements and their family's daily life during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data is part of the multidisciplinary project "Finnish Childcare Policies: In/Equality in Focus" (CHILDCARE), carried out by the University of Jyväskylä, Tampere University and the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). In the interviews, questions were initially asked about the child's and family's everyday life during the COVID-19 pandemic, for example, how the pandemic and COVID-19 restrictions affected the child's everyday life in spring 2020. Then, they were asked what life was like for the family in autumn 2020 and how the pandemic had changed the family's life. The survey then asked how the children in the family felt about the pandemic and the changes it brought. Looking to the near future, the interviews asked about the interviewees' thoughts, concerns and hopes regarding the COVID-19 and family life. The interviews also asked how parents' work was organised in everyday life and how the pandemic had affected the division of labour between parents and their ability to cope. The interviews also looked at whether the role of early childhood education and care services had changed during the pandemic, and how communication between home and early childhood education and care had taken place. Background data are classified by educational background and age, as well as by municipality classification. The data were organised into an easy to use HTML version at FSD. The randomized municipality and respondent code of the "interview name" in the data allows comparison between this and the follow-up data FSD3755 and FSD3751. Follow-up interviews were collected from the same parents when the children were under two years old in 2016-2017 and around four years old in 2019.

本数据集由芬兰约韦斯库莱大学、坦佩雷大学及芬兰健康与福利研究所（THL）共同执行的跨学科项目“芬兰儿童保育政策：聚焦不平等”（CHILDCARE）所收集。该数据集涉及五岁及六岁儿童的父母对其家庭在COVID-19疫情期间的育儿安排及日常生活的信息。访谈伊始，针对儿童及其家庭在疫情期间的日常生活进行提问，例如探讨2020年春季疫情及COVID-19限制措施如何影响儿童的日常生活。随后，调查了2020年秋季家庭的生活状况以及疫情对家庭生活所产生的影响。调查进一步询问了家庭成员对疫情及其带来的变化的感受。展望未来，访谈还涉及了受访者对COVID-19及家庭生活的思考、担忧与期望。访谈亦探讨了父母在日常生活中工作组织方式、疫情对父母工作分工及其应对能力的影响。此外，访谈还关注了疫情期间早期教育及保育服务角色是否发生变化，以及家庭与早期教育及保育服务之间的沟通方式。背景数据根据教育背景、年龄以及市政分类进行分类。数据以易于使用的HTML版本在FSD进行整理。数据中的随机市政及受访者代码（“访谈名称”）允许与后续数据FSD3755和FSD3751进行比较。后续访谈收集自2016-2017年儿童未满两岁时以及2019年儿童约四岁时同一位父母的反馈。