This indicator shows the amount of time spent on childcare responsibilities during and before the pandemic among women and men with childcare responsibilities either in their own household or another household (e.g., grandchildren).
Childcare responsibilities are divided according to the age of children within the household (children aged 0-11, children aged 12-17, and children aged 0-17).
Responses are based on a set of questions regarding the number of hours per typical weekday that the respondent spends on childcare, including assistance with school tasks and home-schooling. Valid responses 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 age of respondent. This is grouped into three age groups: 20-34; 35-49; and 50-64.
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 |