A recent study indicates that 40 percent of the municipalities, children lose their place in child care if a parent loses his or her job. Another 40 percent of the municipalities offer child care a limited number of hours to children with unemployed parents. Some municipalities (35 of 289) offer separate, short-time child care to unemployed parents, often to assist parents in their job-seeking attempts. In a different study, 76 percent of all unemployed parents indicated a strong interest in keeping the place in child care for their child,regardless of whether they found a job or not.