This dataset shows what percentage (%) of all respondents provide informal long-term care to individuals in need of assistance with daily activities due to mental, physical frailty, disability, or old age.
Long-term care refers to a range of supportive services and medical assistance provided to individuals who require extended or ongoing help with activities of daily living, for a minimum of three months.
This indicator is disaggregated by self-reported non-temporary disability status. It is based on responses to the following question:
"Are you limited because of a health problem in activities people usually do? Would you say you are…"
For the purposes of this indicator, people are classed as having a disability if they selected one of the first two responses above ("severely limited" or "limited") and indicated (in a follow-up question) that they have had this limitation for at least the past six months.
Available flags:
| b | break in time series | c | confidential |
| d | definition differs, see metadata | e | estimated |
| f | forecast | i | see metadata |
| m | imputed | n | not significant |
| p | provisional | r | revised |
| s | Eurostat estimate | u | low reliability |
| x | dropped due to insufficient sample size | y | unreliable due to small sample size |
| z | not applicable |