EIGE

On average, how many hours per week are you involved in caring for and/or educating your grandchildren outside of paid work? (% of respondents, 18+ population) ta_timeuse_careact_chldrn__eqls_famcarehours__grchildp

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 question Q43b from the 2016 EQLS survey in the EQLS Integrated Data File, 2003-2016: On average, how many hours per week are you involved in caring for and/or educating your grandchildren outside of paid work? ___ hours.

This question was only asked in 2016, therefore no time series data 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. This question was only asked to respondents who answered to the preceding question (42b) that they had been involved in caring for and/or educating their grandchildren at least once a week.

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.
BG
RS
CY
IE
IT
BE
UK
ES
MT
RO
EL
EE
AT
LT
HR
SI
SK
EU28
LU
MK
AL
PL
CZ
HU
ME
PT
DE
NL
TR
FR
LV
FI
SE
DK
2016
BG
31.6
RS
30.8
CY
30
IE
28.5
IT
26.6
BE
26.4
UK
26.2
ES
25.9
MT
25.3
RO
24.6
EL
24.2
EE
23.8
AT
23.7
LT
23.5
HR
22
SI
21.9
SK
21.1
EU28
20.8
LU
20.2
MK
19.8
AL
19.4
PL
19.1
CZ
17.9
HU
17.4
ME
16.6
PT
16.3
DE
16
NL
14.7
TR
13.4
FR
12.7
LV
12.5
FI
11.4
SE
10
DK
6.6

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