This indicator shows reliance on external services among those with long-term care responsibilities before and during the pandemic. Long-term care refers to care of older persons or persons with a disability. Reliance is defined as a person using a type of support at least once a week.
It is based on the question which asked about different types of benefits/support: “How often do you rely on the following external services and resources for the care of older people or people with limitations in their usual activities due to health problems and/or with disabilities? 1. Residential long-term care facilities/ institutions, 2. Daycare centre, 3. Home-based personal care workers, 4. Domestic cleaners and helpers, 5. Nurse and/or health care assistants, 6. Social worker, 7. Relatives, neighbours, friends”. These response options are also aggregated under the option 'Any time of support'.
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 |