This indicator shows the distribution of childcare tasks among women and men with childcare responsibilities, either in their own household or another household (e.g., grandchildren), both before and during the pandemic. Childcare responsibilities are divided according to the age of the children (children aged 0-11, and children aged 12-17) and by type of childcare task (care and supervision, schoolwork, playing, and managing schedules and activities).
Valid responses were grouped into the four 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.
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 |