This indicator shows the extent to which women and men with childcare responsibilities are reliant on external support both before and during the pandemic. Reliance is defined as a person using a type of support at least once a week.
Data are disaggregated by age of the children within the household (children aged 0-11, children aged 12-17, and children aged 0-17) and by type of benefit/support received.
It is based on the question: “How often do you rely on the following external services and resources for childcare?1. Daycare centre/school (also if with reduced offer/online format), 2. After-school programme(s) and other extracurricular activities, 3. Nanny or babysitter, 4. Nurse or social worker, 5. Grandparents or other relatives, 6. Other adults (neighbours, friends, parents from child’s school or daycare …)?” for two time periods (“nowadays” and “before the pandemic started in February/March 2020”.
More information on the methodological aspects of EIGE’s survey ‘Gender Equality and Socio-Economic Consequences of Covid-19 crisis’ can be obtained in the technical report.
This indicator is disaggregated by household type. Household types include women and men who are: single without children; lone parents / single cohabiting with children; in a couple without children; in a couple cohabitating with children; other.
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 |