60 percent of children are cared for outside the family

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Depending on the age, the care was organized differently, the Federal Bureau of Statistics announced on Tuesday. For children up to the age of four, the parents (36 percent) rely most on their grandparents.

34 percent of the offspring entrusted them to a nursery (Kita). In contrast, 36 percent of four- to 12-year-olds provided facilities such as day schools or after-school care, and 24 percent cared for their grandparents.

One tenth of the children under the age of 13 looked at other people in the area such as friends, family or neighbours. Host parents had 5 percent of the children, nannies, au pairs or babysitters 4 percent.

Outside childcare is often a matter of pocket money, as the BFS further noted. In households with the highest income, 83 percent of the children received extra family care, in households with the lowest income 38 percent.

Large differences were particularly visible in day-care centers and the extracurricular offer, where 62 percent of the highest income and 23 percent of the lowest income were used. Among the middle incomes, it was mainly the grandparents who joined.

In a European comparison, there were 30 percent fewer children in a day care center or childminder in Switzerland than in the EU with 36 percent. The duration of care was also shorter. Only five percent of young children in Switzerland were cared for more than 30 hours a week outside the family. The EU average was 21 percent.

In Switzerland, the care of the youngest by grandparents, other private individuals or childminders is more common in Switzerland than in neighboring countries, namely 42 percent. In Germany this share was 9 percent, in France 13 percent, in Austria 30 percent and in Italy 39 percent.

(SDA)

Source:Blick