Neither backlash nor convergence: dynamics of intra-couple childcare division during the Covid-19 pandemic in Germany

Journal for Labour Market Research

Table 1 Summary statistics.

	Full sample				Mothers				Fathers
	Unbalanced		Balanced		Unbalanced		Balanced		Unbalanced		Balanced
	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD
Parental division of childcare^a	3.791	0.941	3.810	0.944	3.895	0.961	3.957	0.951	3.677	0.909	3.626	0.910
Parental division of childcare, dichotomized (in Percent):
(Almost) entirely father	0.018	0.131	0.014	0.116
Predominantly father	0.051	0.220	0.056	0.230
Both parents equally	0.309	0.462	0.308	0.462
Predominantly mother	0.366	0.482	0.351	0.477
(Almost) entirely mother	0.256	0.436	0.271	0.445
Parental division of housework^a	3.781	0.879	3.799	0.913
Parental division of shopping^a	3.268	1.212	3.373	1.232
Female	0.519	0.500	0.550	0.498
Lockdown-specific work arrangements (as of HOPP wave May 2020)
> 20 work hrs, remote work possible					0.358	0.480	0.355	0.479	0.611	0.488	0.626	0.484
> 20 work hrs, remote work not possible					0.127	0.333	0.121	0.326	0.246	0.431	0.243	0.430
≤ 20 work hrs					0.325	0.469	0.312	0.464	0.097	0.297	0.096	0.294
Not employed					0.190	0.392	0.213	0.410	0.046	0.209	0.035	0.183
Age youngest child in household	5.060	3.360	5.202	3.316	5.207	3.330	5.284	3.188	4.884	3.374	5.017	3.432
Child aged 0–3 in household	0.399	0.490	0.384	0.487	0.367	0.482	0.355	0.479	0.434	0.496	0.426	0.495
No. children age < 18 in household	1.737	0.745	1.748	0.695	1.717	0.734	1.723	0.696	1.761	0.758	1.774	0.699
N	2676		1032		1386		564		1272		460
No. individuals	1078		258		554		141		516		115

^aMeasured on a 5-point scale from 1 “entirely father” to 5 “entirely mother”. Children’s age calculated as of 2020 based on annual year-of-birth information