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