Socioeconomic and attitudinal differences between service users of private and public early childhood education and care in the Finnish context

International Journal of Child Care and Education Policy

Table 3 Relative risk ratios (RRR) between family SES characteristics, control variables and the form of child’s ECEC

	Private ECEC: voucher	Private ECEC: PDA	Private ECEC: PDA
	Public ECEC		Private ECEC: voucher
	RRR [95% CI]	RRR [95% CI]	RRR [95% CI]
Socioeconomic characters
Parental education level (0 = primary/secondary education, 1 = tertiary education)	1.95 [1.18‒3.21]	3.06 [1.61‒5.84]	1.57 [0.72‒3.46]
Household income level
Low income	1.10 [0.57‒2.11]	0.49 [0.25‒0.95]	0.45 [0.19‒1.08]
Middle income	1.08 [0.65‒1.78]	0.57 [0.37‒0.88]	0.53 [0.29‒0.98]
High income	Ref.	Ref.	Ref.
Control variables
Parent’s country of birth (0 = Finland, 1 = other)	0.51 [0.22‒1.19]	1.44 [0.82‒2.54]	2.84 [1.09‒7.41]
Amount of ECEC (0 = 1–27 h/ week, 1 = 28 h or more/week)	1.22 [0.72‒2.09]	1.26 [0.68‒2.32]	1.03 [0.48‒2.21]
Flexibly scheduled ECEC (0 = no, 1 = yes)	0.18 [0.24‒1.36]	0.21 [0.03‒1.61]	1.18 [0.07‒19.09]