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 6 Differences in attitudes across different ECEC service user groups

Attitude dimensions	Compared groups	Wald test (df = 1)	Group differences
Factor 1 Preference for municipal ECEC	PDA vs. public	128.51^b	Public > PDA
	voucher vs. public	33.92^b	Public > voucher
	voucher vs. PDA	9.61^a	Voucher > PDA
Factor 2 Cost-free ECEC	PDA vs. public	0.26
	voucher vs. public	0.18
	voucher vs. PDA	0.004
Factor 3 Individual attention	PDA vs. public	4.00^a	PDA > public
	voucher vs. public	2.30
	voucher vs. PDA	0.20
Factor 4 Individual utility	PDA vs. public	0.34
	voucher vs. public	0.14
	voucher vs. PDA	0.69