Families with an employed mother and children younger than 15 paid an average of $143 per week for child care in 2011. Find out more Friday, May 3, 2013, at approximately 9:15 a.m. EDT as Lynda Laughlin, family demographer in the Social, Economic and Housing Statistics Division at the U.S. Census Bureau, discusses statistics about child care arrangements and payments.

Each Friday, C-SPAN's "America by the Numbers" segment features information from the federal statistical system. The program highlights the trends and allows the public to call in or email their views. More information on previous C-SPAN programs is available at <//www.census.gov/newsroom/cspan.html>.

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