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2020 & 2021 Childcare Amid Covid-19 Surveys and Interviews
Due to social distancing to prevent the spreading of COVID-19, households have gone through an increased burden of care work. This spring, kindergartens and schools have closed down which elevated the burden for parents with young children. The Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion and Gallup Korea surveyed 1200 married men and women with children 0-12 years old to find about the impact of COVID-19 on care at home. In March 2021, we conducted a second survey that expanded the number of samples to 2016 parents nationwide and added questions about their experiences over the past year. Through this survey, we collected a wide range of information on whether to work from home, experience in caring for children during telecommuting, and who mainly cared for their children and were in charge of housework during social distancing due to COVID-19. Based on the results of these surveys, we are conducting research to see how gender inequality in care, which existed in Korean society, intensifies in emergency situations such as COVID-19, how government policies such as family care leave and emergency care were accepted and what are the problems. The Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion plans to provide practical solutions based on such empirical data to continue to seek alternatives to what measures should be taken if situations such as COVID-19 continue in the future. A series of publication related to this topic can be found in: Brief Series on COVID-19 and Care Impact of COVID-19 with Small Children in South Korea: Overview of Survey 1st Survey 2nd Survey Overview of Research Data on COVID-19
2018 Qualitative Interviews of Unpaid and Paid Care Workers on Eldercare and Childcare
This data includes 96 interviews conducted between May to December 2018 on paid and unpaid childcare providers of children and elders. Seoul National University researchers and Gallup Korea divided interviewees based on whether they took care of children/elders and whether they were paid or not. Through such classification of interviewees, we were able to understand the current situation of childcare labor and its characteristics in various perspectives. We plan to use the data for analyzing childcare labor within South Korea.
2018 Care Work in South Korea Survey
The 2018 Care Work in South Korea Survey was collected as a part of the Care Work and the Economy (CWE-GAM) project to enhance the understanding of the nature and value of care work. The survey was developed to provide a comprehensive picture of care work in South Korea and includes detailed information on paid/unpaid caregivers and care recipients. For paid care workers, 300 eldercare workers and 300 childcare workers were interviewed (purposive sample). For unpaid caregivers, a nationally representative sample of 501 households that provide care for a frail elderly person aged 65 and older, and 500 households that provide care for children aged under 10 years old were included. This survey is a unique and valuable contribution as it contains common questions for all four categories of caregivers (paid/unpaid childcare, paid/unpaid eldercare), which enables us to explore the nature of care work in a more comprehensive way.
2020 & 2021 Childcare Amid Covid-19 Surveys and Interviews
Due to social distancing to prevent the spreading of COVID-19, households have gone through an increased burden of care work. This spring, kindergartens and schools have closed down which elevated the burden for parents with young children. The Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion and Gallup Korea surveyed 1200 married men and women with children 0-12 years old to find about the impact of COVID-19 on care at home. In March 2021, we conducted a second survey that expanded the number of samples to 2016 parents nationwide and added questions about their experiences over the past year. Through this survey, we collected a wide range of information on whether to work from home, experience in caring for children during telecommuting, and who mainly cared for their children and were in charge of housework during social distancing due to COVID-19. Based on the results of these surveys, we are conducting research to see how gender inequality in care, which existed in Korean society, intensifies in emergency situations such as COVID-19, how government policies such as family care leave and emergency care were accepted and what are the problems. The Center for Transnational Migration and Social Inclusion plans to provide practical solutions based on such empirical data to continue to seek alternatives to what measures should be taken if situations such as COVID-19 continue in the future. A series of publication related to this topic can be found in: Brief Series on COVID-19 and Care Impact of COVID-19 with Small Children in South Korea: Overview of Survey 1st Survey 2nd Survey Overview of Research Data on COVID-19
2018 Qualitative Interviews of Unpaid and Paid Care Workers on Eldercare and Childcare
This data includes 96 interviews conducted between May to December 2018 on paid and unpaid childcare providers of children and elders. Seoul National University researchers and Gallup Korea divided interviewees based on whether they took care of children/elders and whether they were paid or not. Through such classification of interviewees, we were able to understand the current situation of childcare labor and its characteristics in various perspectives. We plan to use the data for analyzing childcare labor within South Korea.
2018 Care Work in South Korea Survey
The 2018 Care Work in South Korea Survey was collected as a part of the Care Work and the Economy (CWE-GAM) project to enhance the understanding of the nature and value of care work. The survey was developed to provide a comprehensive picture of care work in South Korea and includes detailed information on paid/unpaid caregivers and care recipients. For paid care workers, 300 eldercare workers and 300 childcare workers were interviewed (purposive sample). For unpaid caregivers, a nationally representative sample of 501 households that provide care for a frail elderly person aged 65 and older, and 500 households that provide care for children aged under 10 years old were included. This survey is a unique and valuable contribution as it contains common questions for all four categories of caregivers (paid/unpaid childcare, paid/unpaid eldercare), which enables us to explore the nature of care work in a more comprehensive way.