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Table 2 Reported return to work and childcare practices (return-to-work quantitative interview)

From: ‘I can no longer do my work like how I used to’: a mixed methods longitudinal cohort study exploring how informal working mothers balance the requirements of livelihood and safe childcare in South Africa

 

N = 18

Age of child on return to work/months

Less than one month

1

1- < 2 months

9

3- < 4 months

3

5- < 6 months

4

Above 6 months

1

Place where child is cared for during work hours

Mother’s own home

5

Carer’s home

3

Creche

3

With mother at workplace

3

With mother working at home

4

Person who cares for the child during work hours

Grandmother

2

Father

1

Other relative

3

Non-relative or creche

5

Mother (at work or at home)

7