EIGE

What type of long term care did you or somebody closed to you used the most during the last 12 months? (% of respondents, 18+ population) ta_hlthmort_hlth_care_use_homecare__eqls_longtermcare

Time format:
Years
Unit:
Percentage (comparable)
Description:

Calculations are based on microdata from the European Quality of Life Survey (EQLS), coordinated by Eurofound. The survey aims to represent the population of all residents in a survey country aged 18 or older.

The question considered is questions Q71 and 72 from the 2016 EQLS survey in the EQLS Integrated Data File, 2003-2016: What type of long term care did you (Q71) or somebody close to you (Q72) use the most during the last 12 months? 1 Nursing care services at your/this person’s home; 2 Home help or personal care services in your/this person’s home; 3 Residential care or nursing home.

This question was only asked in 2016, therefore no time series data are available. In addition, the sample for this question is small causing estimates at the country level to be unreliable. Therefore, only EU-level results are available.

For each response category, the indicator is calculated as the percentage of persons who answered the question using this response category out of all respondents who were asked to respond to this question.

The selection of relevant questions from the EQLS surveys to be included in the database was based on the following criteria:

  • Additionality: EQLS questions were included where they provided additional information compared to other data (such as Eurostat data) included in the database;
  • Policy & research relevance: EQLS questions were included where they were judged to be highly policy relevant and/or showed substantial gender variation in data;
  • Recent data: EQLS questions were included only if they were last asked less than ten years ago; and
  • Sufficient sample size: EQLS questions were included only if there was a sufficient number of respondents to allow for response breakdown by EU Member States and gender.
Keywords:
death, deaths, health, health care, health care-related, health services, health-related, healthcare, mortality, population
PCT_NURSING
PCT_PERSONAL
PCT_RESIDENTIAL
PCT_DK
PCT_REFUSE
2016
2016
2016
W
M
T
PCT_NURSING
42.6
54.9
47.3
PCT_PERSONAL
49.2
35.5
43.9
PCT_RESIDENTIAL
7.1
4.3
6
PCT_DK
0.6
4.4
2
PCT_REFUSE
0.6
1
0.7

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