Among households with children, the largest number had one child (49% of households with children), 39% had two children and 12% had three or more children.
About 13% of households with children (3% of all households) were single-parent families, or 6 million households in absolute terms.
Meanwhile, according to the same data, in 24 of the 27 Member States, the proportion of women aged 25 to 54 with part-time status and children was higher than that of women in the same category with part-time status and no children.
This difference was larger in central and western European Member States such as Germany (34 percentage points), Austria (32.3 p.p.) and the Netherlands (27.3 p.p.)
Overall, the difference was smaller in eastern European Member States. In Cyprus, this difference stood at 1.1 p.p. quite close to other Eastern European countries.
The proportion of part-time women with no children was higher than that of part-time women with children in Denmark (2.7 p.p.), Portugal (2.3 p.p.), Denmark (2.7 p.p.) and Portugal (2.3 p.p.).Although some Member States recorded smaller gaps in part-time employment between women with and without children, in general women with children had a lower employment rate than women without children in most countries.
For example, Romania recorded a very low gap in part-time employment between women with and without children (0.2 p.p.), but recorded one of the largest gaps in employment between women with and without children (10.8 p.p.).
Also, it is noted, the part-time employment rate depends to a significant extent on the level of education.
Source: CNA
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