This indicator shows the impact of government measures on the unpaid care burden of women and men with childcare responsibility.
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 type of measure.
It is based on the question: “Since the start of the pandemic in February/March 2020, to what degree did the following changes impact your unpaid care burden? 1. Closure of schools and/or childcare services, 2. Move to online schooling and/or lectures, […] 5.Limitation of local movement, 6. Limitation of social contacts e.g. to limited number of households, 7. Partial or full closure of restaurants and cafes/bars, 8. Partial or full closure of public transport”
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 |