Working Expenses for Day-Care Centers in Japanese Municipalities Comparison between Public and Private Management
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概要
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In Japan, because of the extremely low fertility in recent years, the improvement of child-care-service supply is advocated, but such improvement may induce great financial burdens at national and regional levels. The purpose of this study is to attempt to draw implications for financially effective service supply by analyzing the municipal data on approved day-care centers in 1998. The objects of analyses are 504 Japanese municipalities, including 84.0% of the municipalities with populations of two hundred thousand or more. When the working expenses per child in approved day-care centers are calculated, the obtained values for public management are much larger than those for private management. These differences are ascribed to the working expenses per nursery teacher rather than the relative numbers of nursery teachers as the age structure of children and regional value of money are taken into account. When the ages of nursery teachers are averaged, the obtained averages for public management are larger than those for private management, but these differences cannot fully explain the differences in the working expenses per nursery teacher. By analyzing the municipal differentials in the working expenses per child, it can also be seen that the differentials for public management are much larger than those for private management. Although the service supply by public management is not necessarily expensive, it can be concluded that the service supply by private management is generally preferable in terms of the financial aspect.
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