SURVEY FOR DAY CARE CENTER FACILITY

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• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 14, 2011
• Sequence Number: 36
• Publication Date: April 19, 1985
• Content Type: MEMO

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ROUTING AND RECORD SHEET
Agency Child Day Care Center Survey Results
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The attached survey results
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were tabulated on the 650
questionnaires received in EEO
by close of business on 16 April
1985. Last minute questionnaires
-continue to come in but we feel
those received-within the deadline
are representative of the enthusias
and need expressed by Agency
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19 April 1985
MEMORANDUM FOR: Deputy Director for Administration
VIA: Director of Personnel
FRAM: Federal Women's Program Manager
Office of Equal Employment Opportunity
SUBJECT: Survey for Day Care Center Facility
1. Pursuant to your request, the Child Day Care Center Planning
Committee has conducted a survey of CIA employees concerning their
interest in, and support for, an Agency on-site day care facility.
2. The survey was conducted through an all-employee
questionnaire, distributed and collected by the Federal Women's
Program, Office of Equal Employment Opportunity, and the results
tabulated by the Federal Women's Program Advisory Council, Child
Care Committee. Attached is a copy of the questionnaire, showing
the basic numerical data provided by the survey and a summary of the
results.
Attachments:
As stated
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SUMMARY
The following are the results of a survey conducted in April
1985 regarding child care concerns of CIA employees. The survey was
sponsored by the Day Care Center Task Force at the request of the
DDA. The questionnaire, distributed through an all-Employee
Bulletin, was intended to gain useful data in three broad
categories: how employees arrange child care at present; interest
in the establishment of a local-on-site day care center; and what,
if any, effect child care concerns have on employee productivity and
morale.
Of the 650 employees responding to the survey, 70% work at
Headquarters Building and 30% at off-site locations. Responses to
the questionnaire suggest that their child care needs support the
establishment of an on-site facility and provide useful data on the
type of facility and services that would meet the needs of the
greatest number of employees.
TABULATED STATISTICAL DATA:
1.
Respondee's Characteristics:
- Male
24%
(148)
- Female
77%
(502)
- Ages
Under 24
9%
(61)
24-34
64%
(419)
35 or over
2G%
(170)
- Work Schedules
Regular day shift
76%
(493)
Flex/part-time
8%
(55)
- Present Child Care
Babysitter
31%
(199)
Relatives
17%
(109)
Use day care centers
18%
(120)
- Approximate Family Income
$15,000-$29,000
15%
(97)
$30,000
24%
(156)
$40,000 or more
61%
(397)
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2. Respondee's Attitudes/Opinions
- Would use Agency Center if available 92% (516)
- Would use Center if available within
next two years 77% (500)
- Occasionally miss partial day of
work due to child care problems 44% (283)
- Occasionally miss full day of work
due to child care problems 42% (272)
- Job performance, productivity, morale
and use of leave would improve with a
center in close proximity to work 95% (617)
- Reasons for not presently using day
care centers
- Too expensive 16% (107)
- Too difficult to find 17% (108)
- Poor quality or inconvenient 17% (109)
- Hours of operation
- Regular day shifts 0730-1730 76% (463)
- Alternate schedules 0730-1900 8% (55)
- Care for school age children on
occasions when schools are closed
- for holidays/snow 96% (621)
- summer vacation 89% (577)
- Acceptable fees
- $50-$70 per week per child 65% (364)
- $80-$100 per week per child 25% (163)
Note: Percentages are rounded off to the nearest whole number.
Where totals do not equal 100% the difference is the
number of people failing to respond to that question
or part thereof.
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CON iDE TIAL
Many respondees included comments, personal views and statements
of problems posed by various child care arrangements. The most
representative of these are summarized as follows:
1. Many stressed that infant care is desirable and much
needed. Families with more than one child (e.g., one infant
and one toddler) would prefer to have both cared for at the
same facility.
2. Respondents expressed their feelings that an on-site facility
would relieve the anxiety caused by having to rush to day
care centers to pick up children before they closed or when
they must find other arrangements when their babysitter is
ill.
3. Several expressed a desire to start families but have great
reservations as to their need to continue working and getting
dependable quality care for their children.
4. Several respondents indicated that they were confident that
a child care center at CIA would be well run and attract
high quality personnel to operate it.
5. Comments were made suggesting that the establishment of an
on-site center would attract hard to get applicants to the
Agency and would be an incentive for more women to return to
work after the birth of a child.
6. Many parents were concerned with finding child care that
offered a constructive program for school holidays and
vacations. Some suggested the hiring of teenagers of Agency
employees to work at the Center during the summer months.
7. Several employees expressed a desire for "drop-in" or "part-
time" day care to provide child care during emergencies or
last minute problems with their regular child care
arrangements.
8. It was noted that child care concerns in combination with
rotating shifts, overtime work, TDYs, etc. have adversely
affected the overall career plans of many of those employees
who responded to the survey.
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9. Employees desire quality, not simply custodial care. Many
would like to provide input into the running of the Center -
they want to be invdved. Several were people with no
children of their own, or with grown children, who feel an
on-site center would be a great benefit to the Agency.
10. Questionnaires were accented by such comments as:
"Where was this when I needed it??"
"I wholeheartedly support this effort."
"I have a degree in child development, how can I help."
"At last this worthwhile employee-oriented program
will be a reality."
"A fantastic idea!"
"Child care is becoming a critical issue - how
can I help?"
"It's time we had such a facility - how soon?"
"Ideal for convenience, realiability and expense."
"Now I'll get married and have children."
"Live 65 miles from work - I need it now."
"Long overdue - will do more to relieve the clerical
shortage than anything I know."
"Couldn't you speed it up?"
"An excellent idea - should have come sooner."
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CIA CHILD DAY CARE QUESTIONNAIRE
1. If a CIA Child Care Facility were available at Headquarters
Building, would you use it?
a. Yes _S9& b. No 5/
2. If the facility opened in Fall 1987 would you use it
immediately?
a. Yes 00
b. No IOU&
3. Please indicate the number of children you presently have in
the following age groups:
NONE ONE TWO THREE MORE
6 weeks to 6 months 7S/ /!Z
7 to 18 months
19 to 24 months ~.Z 3
25 to 48 months
49 to 60 months
4. Are you planning to have children or adopt in the:
/ Next year
/f Next two years
_j&V-Future
5. Please indicate the maximum amount you could afford per
child for day care, computed on a 9-hour day, 5-day week,
and including hot lunch and two snacks daily. Please
mark only one.
__1f3 $50/week _~, _$80/week
jJ3 $60/week 2,5 $90/week
j1J$70/week x$100/week
6. Are you under cover? /63
Type
7. In order to determine the peak arrival and departure times
at the center, please indicate your preferred hours of use.
Please mark only one.
10 0600 - 1530 /&O 0730 - 1700 *JS 0800 - 1830
_ 0630 - 1600 I/9 0800 - 1730 j 0900 - 1900
//2, 0700 - 1630 x0730 - 1800
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8. How are your children cared for during your working hours?:
Child's older brother or sister.
_ _Mother or other adult relative
19, Babysitter in his/her home
IAO Day Care Center
,Z3 Cares for self
as Day care provided in your home
9. How do you feel about your present child care arrangements?
Very satisfied
1,"-Satisfied
_j#$ Neutral
Dissatisfied
Very dissatisfied
10. If you don't have the child care arrangement that you would
prefer, why not?
_ 5 _Can't afford it
Too expensive
ip_Difficult to find it
-,IS Generally available but is of poor quality
74Not convenient to home/work
11. How often do problems with babysitting or child care
arrangements cause you to:
Miss a part of a day: 7NeverljCnce in a while Frequently
Miss a complete day: 7tNever,aj3Once in a while &Frequently
12. Which, if any, of the following do you feel would improve by
having day care facilities at Headquarters:
AiLe'Your possibilities for career advancement/training/etc.
j 7f Your attitude towards your job
_A19 Your productivity/overall job performance
--Your relationships with supervisors and co-workers
3Use of leave
191 Tardiness
. __201 Your job longevity
101 Physical/Emotional problems
_7-Morale
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13. Please indicate your usual work schedule:
_/ 3Regular day work
5f Flex hours
Part-time (cite number of hours
Jy Alternate work schedule
Eve shift
Mid shift
Rotating shift
14.. Does your job require overtime?
It Routinely
13Q Occasionally
/63 Never
15. If your return to work after the birth/adoption of a
child was delayed by child care problems, how long was
the delay?
___V Up to two weeks ,17 Less than eight weeks
37-Less than six weeks %6 More than eight weeks
16. Would you like to have day care for your school age children
on occasions when the school systems close and CIA is open:
4V Yes
17. Would you like
elementary age
J7 Yes
18. Though you
J No
to have summer day care/day camp for your
children:
,37 No
have no plans at present to use an Agency day carp
c:enLer, even
involved?
_A00 Yes,
21& Yes,
l11 Yes,
a!'JLNo No.
if one were set up, would you be willing to be
working on the initial planning phase.
working on a committee of an ongoing program.
serving on the Board of Directors.
by
by
by
If answer is yes, please advise the Federal Women's Program
Manager in Room 626 Chamber of Commerce.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION
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THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS WILL ENABLE US TO DESCRIBE THE
CHARACTERISTICS OF THE SURVEY SAMPLE. PLEASE ANSWER THEM
COMPLETELY.
1. What is your age
a. 24 or below
b. 25 to 34 years
c. 35 to 44 years
d. 45 and older
2. What is your sex?
a. Male /S/Q
502.
3. What is your marital status?
a. Single 62,
b. Married SyI
C. Divorced or separated .27
d. Other
(specify)
4. Where do you work?
Headquarters
Rosslyn
Stafford
Other/
(specify)
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5. Approximate family income:
a. $15,000 3/
b. $20,000 64
c. $30,000 /SG
d. $40,000 or more 3 8 9
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