Definition: Estimated percentage of adults with caregiving responsibilities for children ages 0-17 who due the COVID-19 outbreak did and did not experience a change in employment (were laid off, furloughed, or had their hours reduced by their employer, quit their job, changed jobs, or reduced their working hours to provide care for others), by length of time working hours were reduced and presence of children with special health care needs (CSHCN) in the household (e.g., in Wave 4 (Jun. 3 – Jun. 29, 2022), 14.5% of California caregivers living in households with one or more CSHCN had experienced a reduction in working hours due to the pandemic lasting longer than 12 months).
Data Source: Family Experiences During the COVID-19 Pandemic. (Jun. 2022). Questionnaire: American Academy of Pediatrics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Prevent Child Abuse America & Tufts Medical Center; California oversample: Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health & California Essentials for Childhood Initiative (California Dept. of Public Health, Injury and Violence Prevention Branch & California Dept. of Social Services, Office of Child Abuse Prevention).
Footnote: The 'don't know or hours not reduced' category includes caregivers who experienced a change in employment but no reduction in working hours. These data are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. Children with special health care needs (CSHCN) have or are at increased risk for a chronic physical, developmental, behavioral, or emotional condition and require health and related services of a type or amount beyond that required by children generally. The annotation [!] indicates that the estimate’s margin of error is at least 5 percentage points but less than 10 percentage points.
