Effect of use of paid leave in California on employee outcomes 2010

This statistic depicts the effect of use of paid family leave in California in 2009-2010 on employee outcomes. Among the surveyed employees, 91.3 of new mothers reported being able to initiate breastfeeding while using paid family leave. In 2004, California implemented a program that allowed those working in California to receive up to 55 percent of their usual weekly wage for family or medical leave.

Paid family leave use effect on employee outcome in California in 2009-2010*

Characteristic	Percentage of respondents
Percent who state that leave had positive effect on ability to care for new child or ill family member	82.3%
Percent of new mothers who initiated breastfeeding	91.3%
Percent who state that leave had positive effect on ability to arrange child care	62.5%
Percent who state that leave had positive effect on ill family member's health	86.5%

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Release date

January 2014

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Region

United States

Survey time period

2010

Age group

18 years and older

Special properties

Employees

Supplementary notes

* Number of surveyed:
Ability to care for new child or ill family member: 164
New mothers who initiated breastfeeding: 67
Ability to arrange child care: 92
Ill family member's health: 49
* For median months of breastfeeding, the Mann-Whiteny-Wilcoxon test was used.

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