the program. Thus, we included all participants( one spouse from each participating family) in the final evaluation survey and randomly selected additional parent workers from non-‐ participants.
The final evaluation took place in the same four factories as the baseline survey. A total of 260 parents with children under 16 participated in the baseline survey( Table 1). 69 % of them were female workers representing the total number of working mothers in the factories; the ages of workers ranged from 18 to 47 with an average age of 33; and about half of the workers( 48 %) were migrant workers. 68 % of the surveyed parents in the final evaluation did not participate in the FCFS program. This allowed us to understand those parents’ opinion on the FCFS project and understand why they did not participate in the FCFS project.
Table 1: Sample Description Baseline
Final Total Workers 220 226 Average, min, max age 35, 20, 60 33, 18, 47 Migrant Worker 117( 53 %) 108( 48 %)
FCFS Participation |
/ |
Participants of FCFS: 72( 32 %) |
Female |
150( 68 %) |
Non-‐ participants of CFS: 154
156( 69 %)
|
Male 70( 32 %) 70( 31 %)
b) Interviews & On-‐ site Observation
CCR CSR staff conducted 14 on-‐ site visits and conducted a total of 93 individual interviews during( on-‐ site) visits by CCR CSR staff.
Table 2: Interview Description
|
Factory |
Parent |
Children |
Teachers |
Relevant Staff |
Baseline |
Mgmt.
11
|
Workers
20
|
0 |
2 |
4 |
Monitoring 3 19 7 6 0 Final 6 12 0 3 0 Total 20 51 7 11 4
During the baseline visits, we asked the parents about their needs and expectations of FCFS, the factory management and relevant staff’ s operation plan, the allocation of potential staffs for FCFS and their concerns and attitude towards the establishment of FCFS. During the monitoring visits, we collected the parents and children’ s feedback on FCFS and areas they thought could be improved. We also asked the factory management and FCFS teachers about the challenges they met during the establishment and operation of FCFS. During the final evaluation visits, we collected all stakeholders’ feedbacks on FCFS and their expectations regarding future program development. Due to the disparity in size of the factories and their programs, we did not make any systematic quantitative comparison between them. However, we will discuss some factors that might explain the differences in terms of impact and gaps that we identified through our on-‐ site observations.
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