 How children spend their out-of-school time – A comparative view across 14 countriesMarkus N. Sauerwein and Gwyther Rees Children and Youth Services Review, 2020, vol. 112, issue C Abstract: This paper sets out to identify similarities and differences in typical ways that children aged around 12 years old spend their out-of-school time across 14 diverse countries in four continents using the Children’s World study. First we identify a number of different profiles of activities within each country using latent profile analysis. Then we identify common profiles and compare them between countries. In a second step background characteristics (gender and socio-economic background) and well-being of children within each of these profiles and countries are taken into account. In sum our results indicate that there are distinct comparable profiles in different countries – even in different parts of the world – however there are not two countries with an identical set of profiles. The background characteristics within a profile between countries are similar. In that way we could support that childhood(s) seems to be more similar between children and youth belonging to a similar economic background than to a certain country. Date: 2020 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:112:y:2020:i:c:s0190740919313167 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2020.104935 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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