Interviews on Early Childhood Education and Care Arrangements: Parents of 4-Year-Olds 2019

The data consists of information collected from parents and guardians of children aged around four years on childcare arrangements and early childhood education solutions. The data is part of the multidisciplinary project "Finnish Childcare Policies: In/Equality in Focus" (CHILDCARE), which is being implemented by the Universities of Jyväskylä and Tampere and the National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL). In the interviews, questions were initially asked about the everyday life of the child and the family, for example what changes have taken place since the last interview and what solutions have been made in terms of childcare. Then the reasons for the childcare solutions were asked, for example, how and why the current solution was chosen. This was followed by an enquiry about the support and help that respondents had received in relation to childcare and its solutions. They were also asked about the reconciliation of work and family life and about decision-making and negotiation in the family in relation to childcare. Interviewees were asked to describe a typical day for a four-year-old child. They were also asked what their living environment is like for a four-year-old child and what they would think if the municipality offered free early childhood education for five-year-olds. Background data are classified by educational background, age and 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 a comparison between this and the follow-up data FSD3750 and FSD3755. Follow-up interviews were collected from the same parents and guardians when the children were under two years old in 2016-2017 and under school age during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020-2021.

该数据集汇集了四岁左右儿童的父母和监护人关于育儿安排及学前教育解决方案的信息。此数据集为多学科项目“芬兰儿童保育政策：聚焦不平等”（CHILDCARE）的一部分，该项目由约韦斯库尔大学、坦佩雷大学及国家健康与福利研究所（THL）联合实施。在访谈中，首先询问了儿童及其家庭的生活日常，例如自上次访谈以来发生的变化以及育儿方面的解决方案。随后，探究了采取育儿解决方案的原因，例如当前解决方案是如何以及为何被选择的。接着，调查了受访者就育儿及其解决方案所获得的支援和协助。还询问了工作与家庭生活的平衡以及家庭内部在育儿问题上的决策和协商。受访者还被要求描述一个四岁儿童典型的日常，以及如果市政府为五岁儿童提供免费学前教育，他们将作何感想。背景数据根据教育背景、年龄和市镇分类进行分类。数据以易于使用的HTML版本在FSD上整理。数据中的随机市镇代码和受访者代码允许对“访谈名称”与后续数据FSD3750和FSD3755之间的比较。后续访谈收集自2016-2017年儿童未满两岁时以及2020-2021年COVID-19疫情期间学龄前的同一父母和监护人。