Which of the Following Statements About Child Care and Socioeconomic

question 92

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements about child care and socioeconomic status is true?

• A) High-quality child care is available only to those children whose parents are wealthy.
• B) Children are more likely to experience poor-quality child care if their parents have few resources.
• C) Children staying in day care for longer than 40 hours/week tend to experience depression regardless of the quality of the care.
• D) There is not enough research on child care and socioeconomic status to be able to make any correlations.

---

Definitions:

Percentage

A way of expressing a number as a fraction of 100, used to compare proportions.

Normal Model

A theoretical distribution with a bell-shaped curve, symmetrical about the mean, used in statistics to describe how values of a variable are spread or distributed.

Top 2.5%

Referring to the upper echelon or highest-performing individuals or entities, specifically those in the 97.5th percentile and above.

Normal Model

A probability distribution characterized by its symmetry about the mean, revealing that data is more frequently found near the mean than at greater distances from it.