This indicator shows the proportion of women and men in employment who experienced a change in their working time arrangements since the start of the pandemic, disaggregated by the type of change in working time arrangements.
It is based on the question:“Since the start of the pandemic in February/March 2020, did anything change in your working time arrangements? Please refer to your main job and select all that applies. 1. You chose to reduce your working time to take care of your children and/or other relatives, 2.You chose to change your working schedule in order to take care of your children and/or other relatives (e.g. you worked more in the evening or when the children were sleeping), 3. You chose to reduce your working time and/or change your working schedule for reason other than care, 4. Your employer reduced your working time, 5. Your working time increased (e.g. passing from part-time to full-time; increased the weekly hours), 6. None of these changes.”
The indicator shows the proportion of women and men who selected one or more of these changes.
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 |