Estimates of the impact of formal childcare availability on school
enrollment in children over 6 are summarized in Table 2 . Of the
original sample of 8366 children, information on school enrollment was
available for 8157 at midline (4508 enrolled, 3649 unenrolled). 5134 of
these children (2628 treated, 2506 control) were over 6 years old at
midline and were therefore included in our models. Of the 3649 children
specifically coded as unenrolled at midline (1974 treated, 1675
control), 1523 were over 6 years old (810 treated, 713 control). Our
analyses of non-enrollment due to domestic responsibilities were
restricted to this subgroup of 1523 children.
Our findings in the overall sample suggested that, by the time of the
midline survey, the childcare intervention did not result in a
meaningful change in either the probability of siblings over 6 being
enrolled in school (ITT RR: .98 (95% CI: .94, 1.02)), or being
unenrolled specifically due to domestic responsibilities (ITT RR: 1.10
(95% CI: .91, 1.33)). Sex-stratified analyses did not reveal any
meaningful differences between boys and girls. The per-protocol analysis
produced similar estimates, although the sample size decreased
substantially and estimates were correspondingly imprecise.