EIGE

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

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 Q43a 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 children outside of paid work? ___ hours.

This question was only asked in 2007 and 2016, but not in 2011.

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 (42a) that they had been involved in caring for and/or educating their children 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.
AT
IE
UK
NL
SE
PL
LT
ES
EU28
FI
DE
EE
LU
LV
HU
BE
BG
IT
MK
SI
RS
FR
EL
HR
CZ
MT
SK
ME
AL
RO
DK
CY
TR
PT
2016
AT
27
IE
24
UK
21.6
NL
21.3
SE
19.9
PL
19.6
LT
19.1
ES
16.4
EU28
15.3
FI
15.3
DE
15.1
EE
14.6
LU
14.5
LV
14.2
HU
13.8
BE
13.7
BG
13.6
IT
13.2
MK
12.2
SI
11.9
RS
11.5
FR
11
EL
10.4
HR
9.9
CZ
9.7
MT
9.5
SK
8.9
ME
8.2
AL
7.8
RO
7.2
DK
7
CY
6.7
TR
6.6
PT
6.4

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