This indicator shows the extent to which women and men with childcare responsibilities were reliant on external support both during and before the pandemic, disaggregated by type of support.
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 …)?”.
Respondents were asked to indicate how much each measure impacted their unpaid care burden, ranging from “greatly reduced” to “greatly increased”. Valid response were grouped into the three categories:
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 |