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 the employment status of the respondent. It groups respondents as: (1) Employee; (2) Self-employed; (3) Unemployed; (4) Inactive/ out of labour force (including retired, in school, unable to work due to long-standing health problems, fullfilling domestic tasks, in compulsory military service, and unpaid family workers).
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 |