Research Article
Grandparental Childcare and Second Birth in China: Evidence from a Dynamic Model and Empirical Study
Table 6
Descriptive statistics of female respondents and male respondents given different labor-participation statuses.
| | Female respondents | Male respondents | Working | Nonworking | Working | Nonworking |
| Sample size | 21,905 (65.5%) | 7,564 (34.5%) | 29,839 (94.2%) | 1,741 (5.8%) |
| Primal-care provider of the first child | Percentage (%) | Percentage (%) | Percentage (%) | Percentage (%) | (i) Parents | 55.2 | 44.9 | 53.7 | 56.1 | (ii) Father | 0.7 | 0.6 | 0.6 | 3.3 | (iii) Mother | 11.9 | 41.9 | 19.5 | 20.8 | (iv) Grandparents | 28.3 | 10.7 | 23.2 | 15.8 | (v) Other caretakers | 3.5 | 1.7 | 2.6 | 2.9 | (vi) Nobody | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 1.1 | Having the second birth | 41.9 | 48.9 | 45.0 | 44.1 |
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