Too late and not enough for some children: early childhood education and care (ECEC) program usage patterns in the years before school in Australia

International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy

Table 5 Results of the hierarchical regression analyses for the prediction of total hours of attendance of formal ECEC (explained variance: R ² = 0.14)

Variable	Unstandardised regression coefficient	SE	T value
Child age	0.091	0.179	0.508
Sex (0 = male; 1 = female)	−1.024	1.935	−0.529
Disability (1)	−8.852	5.077	−1.743
Intelligence (BIA)	−0.273	0.106	−2.565*
Temperament	3.742	1.565	2.391*
Low birth weight (1)	3.478	3.842	0.905
both parents working (0) vs. rest (1)	−21.551	2.048	−10.523***
Both parents not working (1) vs. rest (0)	11.163	8.925	1.251
Single parent (1)	−1.083	10.280	−0.105
Income	1.767	0.438	4.031***
Education	1.251	0.734	1.704
Health Care Card (1)	6.039	2.984	2.024*
Renting (1)	3.222	2.489	1.294
Language other than English (1)	7.054	5.093	1.385
Home Learning Environment	−0.294	0.078	−3.774***
Number of children	−7.009	1.094	−6.407***
Stressful life events (1)	4.615	4.035	1.144
Parental mental health issues (1)	−0.270	0.233	−1.158
SEIFA	0.848	0.794	1.069

* p < 0.05; ** p < 0.01; *** p < 0.001; (1) indicates that the variable has a value of 1 or 0, for example, the family is either renting or is not.