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Table 9 Child-care coverage across cantons, 2002 and 2012

From: Childcare and maternal part-time employment: a natural experiment using Swiss cantons

Canton

2002

2012

Expansion in %

Zürich

11.71

19.42

65.83

Bern

12.13

16.64

37.17

Luzern

5.98

7.36

23.05

Schwyz

4.15

5.52

33.14

Nidwalden

2.68

4.70

75.24

Glarus

5.33

10.26

92.34

Zug

10.11

14.61

44.58

Fribourg

6.60

10.24

55.14

Solothurn

6.12

10.84

77.25

Basel-Stadt

18.43

48.56

163.53

Basel-Landschaft

4.80

17.77

269.95

Schaffhausen

7.45

19.06

156.04

Appenzell A.Rh.

2.61

9.80

274.75

Appenzell I. Rh.

0.87

0.90

3.59

St. Gallen

2.57

6.16

139.73

Graubünden

2.00

8.42

321.57

Aargau

7.48

8.98

20.01

Thurgau

4.54

8.39

84.89

Ticino

2.88

11.53

300.87

Vaud

16.37

29.47

80.04

Valais

7.45

15.59

109.32

Neuchâtel

19.50

27.90

43.10

Genève

15.41

23.52

52.66

Jura

3.22

7.32

127.07

  1. Sources: Ravazzini et al. (2016), 2012 cantonal statistics for Bern, Neuchâtel and Vaud