Timeline for Does Norway spend $29,726 on child care per toddler annually?
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| Oct 8, 2021 at 19:01 | vote | accept | Sherwin Lott | ||
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| Oct 8, 2021 at 15:22 | comment | added | Cameron Lowell Palmer | As an American living in Norway with children, it absolutely feels right the Norway spends significantly more in the 0-5 range than the US. There just isn't really any way to compare fully since the systems are fundamentally different. So all comparisons will always feel apples-to-oranges, because they are in many ways apples-and-oranges. | |
| Oct 8, 2021 at 4:14 | comment | added | days of love iff good genes | Actually worth noting from the latter piece "Expenditures for federally funded Head Start programs, which provide more than just preschool services, are approximately the same amount per pupil—$8,369 in 2009—although Head Start reaches a very small share of U.S. children." I'm guessing the $9832 reported for USA ages 3-5 in the more recent OECD data (B2.3) is basically that figure updated for later years. | |
| Oct 8, 2021 at 4:07 | comment | added | days of love iff good genes | Instead of the rather confusing NYT piece, it is however fair to say that the US spends less (by any number of measures... per GDP or per child) on preschool americanprogress.org/issues/early-childhood/reports/2013/05/02/… | |
| Oct 8, 2021 at 3:54 | comment | added | days of love iff good genes | @SherwinLott: on last issue: it's both public and private, there are some columns (9-10) to the right how much of that is private. Seemingly 14% in Norway and 24% in USA is private. | |
| Oct 8, 2021 at 3:52 | comment | added | Sherwin Lott | Thanks, that's really helpful! Yes, @jeffronicus answered the first part of my question about where the numbers came from. You're answering the second part about whether the NYT used them correctly. It seems that if we're doing per child enrolled, then the US number of $700 in PF3.1.B would probably need to be scaled significantly? (At odds with the $500 number.) Similar to your point (4), the NYT chart seems to be doing a bit of an apples to oranges comparison. A last question, do you know if column 6 of table B2.3 is government spending or total spending as a whole? | |
| Oct 8, 2021 at 1:14 | history | answered | days of love iff good genes | CC BY-SA 4.0 |