This indicator shows the frequency of work-life balance difficulties since the start of the pandemic among those in paid employment, by work-life balance issue.
It is based on the question:“Referring to your main job, how often in the last two weeks, have you 1. Kept worrying about work when you were not working, 2. Felt too tired after work to do some of the household activities which need to be done, 3. Found that your job prevented you from giving the time you wanted to your family, 4.Found it difficult to concentrate on your job because of your family responsibilities, 5. Found that your family responsibilities prevented you from giving the time you should to your job, 6. Found that your job prevented you from giving the time you wanted for yourself”
For each option, respondents were given the following response categories to select:
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 |