This indicator shows the distribution of care among those with long-term care responsibilities before and during the pandemic. Long-term care refers to care for older persons or people with a disability.
It is based on the questions: “Nowadays, who in your household generally provides care for older people or people with limitations in their usual activities due to health problems and/or with disabilities?”, “Since the start of the pandemic, has the distribution of care for older/people with limitations, changed?” and “Before the pandemic start, who was providing care for older /people with limitations?”
Valid response 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.
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 |